Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minus their leader but confident of their ability to maintain a stand against the Colossus of the North, the Argentinian delegates to the Inter-American conference landed at Rio de Janeiro late Monday afternoon to find an immense crowd lining the seawall which overlooks the airbase. Thousands of expectant Brazilians were waiting for something, but it was not for the Argentine delegation. Five minutes later, however, while the Buenos Aires representatives were still on the scene, a huge, forty-ton Yankee clipper zoomed out of the skies an disgorged its immaculate cargo, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, complete with...
...with his autocratic inclinations and his Axis-minded military pals, is unlikely to come around to a cooperative point of view. Nazi pressure, which is reported to have taken the form of a direct note promising retribution and economic ruin for any nation which has not "behaved discreetly" at Rio, has more influence in the Pink House than in any other Latin American capitol. As long as United States beef interests insist that Argentine steers have hoof-and-mouth disease, for one small example, the Republic will be dependent on Europe for its existence...
...December the country has been in a state of siege. A severe censorship has hit not only the newspapers, which have several times appeared with blank editorial pages, but also the foreign correspondents and press services. The Administration has set the stage for some sort of violence, and the Rio conference may raise the curtain. Pressure, exerted not directly by the United States, but by the community of Pan American nations, could turn the tide for some pro-Ally pronunciamento. If it does, Sumner Welles, the United States, and the cause of the democracies can each chalk up a victory...
...strategic points; 3) a crackdown on Axis propagandists and German business firms "bootlegging" war materials through the Atlantic blockade. To get these, the U.S. has dollars, ships, markets and World War II's realism to bargain with in the smoke-filled committee rooms of the Itamaraty Palace at Rio...
...Brazilian state police arrested 16 booted Storm Troopers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where German secret societies were driven underground in 1937. In the state of São Paulo a mob lynched a Japanese who ran amuck upon learning Japanese bank funds were frozen. Other Japs, heavily armed, revolted, were put down by a cavalry regiment and state troops...