Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Getulio Dornellas Vargas has kept a light hand on all news dispatches leaving Brazil, as well as on the domestic press, movies and radio. Last fortnight the grip was released. Dapper, curly-haired Lourival Fontes, director of the D.I.P. (Department of Press and Propaganda) announced to foreign correspondents in Rio de Janeiro that, from now on, no outgoing news would be censored...
...Latin America. As unity grew out of the Pan-American conference at Rio, said Director MacLeish, the Axis beam to South America became a frantic torrent. Since most Latin Americans are Catholics, the Italian radio portrayed "Protestant Roosevelt" in an alliance with "Atheist Stalin" against "Catholic Fascism." Another Axis broadcast asserted that the Vatican had urged Latin America not to break with the Axis. This the Vatican promptly denied...
...hours' flying time the Anzac Clipper, camouflaged for day flying and blacked out at night, clocked 4,350 statute miles last week, bringing U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles home in record time from the Rio de Janeiro Conference of American foreign ministers...
...Rio de Janeiro Conference of American foreign ministers officially adjourned last week with ringing denunciations of Axis aggression, loud vivas for American unity. But late the night of adjournment the Peru-Ecuador border question, which had never been on the agenda but had delayed the conference windup for 24 hours (and made all unity speeches sound slightly hypocritical), was still being threshed out. Not until 2 the next morning did Brazilian Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, making his final attempt to please everyone, order up punch, beer, assorted fruit juices and highballs for the five key diplomats who had argued, orated...
...much less like statesmen, the delegates Monday night straggled part way up Corcovado peak to an official diplomatic reception in President Vargas' marble Guahabara Palace. They kissed the hand of Senhora Vargas, moved through tapestried halls to a garden buffet table and outdoor cocktail bars. By the time Rio's municipal ballet had flitted on & off an outdoor stage the tropic night had begun to work its magic...