Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resolution urging the Inter-American Neutrality Committee, which sits at Rio de Janeiro, to draft a convention to enforce the 300-mile maritime security zone...
...believes that Brazil should follow U. S. policy. This does not keep him from being a shrewd trader. Last week he, too, was on his way to Washington, to collect a few favors for Brazil in return for his pro-U. S. stand at Havana, before going home to Rio de Janeiro to report to his chief, Getulio Vargas. If Senhores Vargas and Nabuco have their way, the best U. S. South American neighbor will be Brazil...
...shrewd, opportunistic, honest politician, with a sincere desire to improve the lot of his people and not too many scruples about the means he employs. Brazilians say he can take off his socks without removing his shoes. He is a Gaucho from the rolling cattle country of Rio Grande do Sul, southernmost of Brazil's 20 federal States. His father who is still living was a General and Getulio grew up in Sao Borja, where lived his present Foreign Minister, Oswaldo Aranha. To this day Oswaldo Aranha's old mother tells Getulio just what she thinks of everything...
...expert is affable Dr. Friedrich Ried, whose six fruitful years in Brazil were a joy and comfort to his Nazi bosses at home. During those six years Dr. Ried busily administered the second phase of Nazi penetration by setting up some 1,000 Nazi schools in the province of Rio Grande do Sul, coaxing 58,000 German and Brazilian small fry into the classes. But Brazilian patience finally cracked, and by this summer Dr. Ried received his walking papers...
...Rio Grande do Sul went Richard Paulig, an assistant in the German Consulate in Manhattan, and Dr. Ried went north to fill Paulig's shoes. Day after he had settled himself at work, the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League rushed a note to the State Department reviewing the Ried record. Three days later a "thank you" letter came back explaining that no information had yet been received as to Ried's U. S. duties. There the matter lay until last week when the Ried cries grew louder as the New York Post's Daniel Lang tracked...