Word: rabello
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Brazilians grow restive as they watch their ships being sunk and see their troops deployed for a coastal defense which, since the Allied invasion of North Africa, seems not very urgent. They want to send troops abroad. Recently General Manuel Rabello was permitted to say, and Brazilian papers were permitted to make much of his saying: "Soldiers, sailors and aviators of Brazil will have to kill and die for the flag of their country and for the United Nations' cause as English, Russians, Americans and Chinese have been dying...
Brazil's desire for action poses a real problem to Brazil's allies, who lack the shipping to satisfy her yearning. But Brazilians have begun to feel strongly, and the U.S. cannot well ignore such expressions of passion as General Rabello's: "There must be no half measure: either defeat and the claws of the beast on our shoulders or victory and the unconditional surrender agreed upon in Casablanca and the possibility of reconstructing a just world for free...
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