Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time been closer than most people knew. But Brazil had not been pushed into the war by the U.S.; she had made her own choice. When someone repeated Axis radio threats to turn Brazil's Independence Day (Sept. 7) into São João Day (which Rio celebrates with fireworks), Aranha nimbly cracked back: Brazil would make it a St. Bartholomew's Day for Axis airmen...
...said Mauricio Nabuco, Secretary-general of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, at last January's Rio conference. Last week Pan-American unity got its biggest tangible boost in World War II when Brazil became the first South American country formally to declare war on Germany and Italy.* (Japan having committed no aggression against Brazil, was omitted from the declaration...
...short days prior to the declaration, submarines had sunk six Brazilian ships, bringing Brazil'stotal of Axis-sunk ships to 19. Lost with the ships were 169 Brazilian officers and soldiers and more than 600 civilians. As the news reached Rio, crowds swarmed into the Avenida Rio Branco, smashed windows of Axis stores, burned Nazi flags, clamored...
...drive Brazil to war (see p. 34); it threatened the trade of better than three-fourths of Brazil's 40,000,000 people. Up and down Brazil's 5,800-mile coastline, wallowing and pitching coastwise steamers provide shuttle service. For dozens of towns and villages, from Rio Grande Do Sul in the south to Belem, north of the bulge, these ships are the sole means of commerce, with the exception of airlines. Last year they carried over 150,000 passengers, nearly two million tons of freight, thousands of sacks of mail. To Brazil, 248,700 square miles...
Brazil's army of a maximum of 285,000 men is ill-equipped and, by European standards, poorly trained. Its wartime task is well-nigh insuperable, for it has the responsibility of guarding the longest Atlantic coastline of any Pan-American nation. For 2,000 miles, from Belem to Rio de Janeiro, there is not a single inch of railroad track, and highway facilities are very poorly developed. All traffic of any large dimensions must move either by coast-wise steamer or by slow portage over inland rivers...