Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prestes, 39, onetime Brazil Army officer who later became the leader of the Brazilian Communist Party, used to be hailed by his Red admirers as The Bearded Knight of Hope." He has since shaved, is now called "The Knight Hope." For the past few years Prestes been in a Rio de Janeiro jail, serving a 17-year sentence for sedition passed on him after the failure of the Communist uprising of 1935. Three weeks ago he stood trial again, this time for the murder a 17-year-old girl, Elvira Copelo Polonio, alias Elza Fernandes...
With its twin motors ticking over rhythmically, a big Heinkel transport moved into position on Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont airfield one day last week, began loading up for its regular Sāo Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing...
...over the heart of Rio it circled, reaching for altitude before heading south. As it neared the shores of Botafogo Bay a twin-engined De Havilland of Argentina's Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Co. appeared to the side, drew recklessly closer to the transport. Frantically the VASP pilot waggled him away, but the De Havilland never changed course. Straight for the Heinkel it headed, swerving desperately at the last minute, catching the transport square amidships with one wing...
Five months ago Brazil's sharp-eyed little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas started clipping the wings of the German Condor airline. First snip came in June when he refused a petition of the Rio-São Paulo branch to keep two of its Nazi pilots on the payroll. Last month he cut a little closer, canceled a contract for service be tween Belem (formerly Pará), at the mouth of the Amazon, and the French Guiana frontier. Three weeks ago he brought out his shears again, ousted all foreign pilots, whether naturalized or not, from Brazilian airlines...
...little realization of what they are dealing with. Politicians and even newspaper men writing from South America refer to the common desire of all the American nations to preserve democracy in the western hemisphere. The truth is that democracy as we know it does not exist south of the Rio Grande. Latin-America is more akin to the "old world" than the United States both culturally and economically. We must face the fact that Latin-American countries must and will sell to anyone, even Herr Hitler. Above all, we must realize that we can aid all nations to defend themselves...