Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-six countries were involved in the exchange of what might reach as high as 10,000 persons, shuttling, under Swiss and Spanish auspices, in channels between New York, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Lourenço Marques. It was a headache for the U.S. State Department and a heartache for many of the Axis nationals, whose positions ranged from accredited diplomats and consuls to suspected fifth columnists and trade "experts" booted out of Latin America. Included were ordinary citizens and nondiplomatic "notables" accepted for repatriation, newspapermen, hundreds of wives, children and dogs...
Believing her doomed, her unhurt 39-man crew pulled off, beefing at her as a Jonah (on this her maiden northbound voyage-motors dead off Punta del Este; motor repairs at Rio; propeller trouble at Recife; 41 days for a 16-day run). The captain and part of his crew were mildly embarrassed when a U.S. man-of-war picked them up after two nights and a day, informed them that cranky, stubborn Victoria had refused to sink and was drifting derelict, and put them back aboard her. There they found the rest of the crew, calmly awaiting their arrival...
...Price of Pride In Washington last week the Inter-American Defense Board, created by vote of the Conference of Foreign Ministers at Rio, got down to brass tacks, began to arrange convoys for those Latin American countries whose rupture of diplomatic relations with the Axis powers had led to submarine reprisals on their shipping. As 55-day voyages from U.S. ports to Bombay and Suez cut Allied tonnage on Latin...
...curious coincidence, the crisis caused in their economies was nothing compared to the crisis in Argentina-which at the Rio Conference had most stubbornly held out for full neutrality. Aloof Argentina, though she politely sent observers to the I.-A.D.B., declined all truck with convoys; they would compromise her neutrality. But the strain was telling...
Because of the war, Orson Welles, who went to Rio de Janeiro to make a film, Journey Into Fear, is gnawing his nails awaiting the arrival of indispensable material from Hollywood: 25 rubber noses...