Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Riachuelo, great Brazilian naval victory over Paraguay, tubby little Getulio Vargas went aboard a warship in Rio de Janeiro harbor, and, after wining well, got up to address the assembled officers. It was the day after President Roosevelt's Charlottesville speech and President Getulio first paid his respects to hemisphere solidarity. "We are united by ties of strict solidarity with all American countries around the ideas, aspirations and common interest in our defense," said...
More significant, even, than propaganda are Nazi influences on the military classes and on business interests. German military prestige with the Brazilian Army grows with each new success in Europe. Military missions go back & forth between Rio and Berlin; Berlin courts Army, Navy and Air Corps heads with assiduity. Last April. War Minister Dutra and Chief of Staff Góes Monteiro were given Germany's highest decoration awarded to foreigners, the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, and officers down to the rank of colonel were decorated. In a country with 75% illiteracy...
...Brazilian coast to Buenos Aires, across the Andes to Santiago. It also runs a profitless branch line to Xapury, 2,000 miles up into the Amazonian wilderness. Germany tried to underwrite a huge Brazilian steel industry, but was outmaneuvered by Washington, which last week was waiting for approval from Rio of a $17,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan...
Said Timesman Cortesi: "The objective in Mexico is not ... to pave the way for invading armies, but ... to create a diversion south of the Rio Grande capable of diverting the attention of the United States . . . from events in Europe." Next day, Hal Burton reported substantially the same facts to the New York Daily News...
...audience were disgusted, and-being Brazilian-showed it. Smarting under their boos and hoots, the conductor of the Italian opera troupe stamped out of the theatre in Rio de Janeiro. To carry on the performance, the orchestra as one man boosted a 19109-year-old cellist to the conductor's stand. He led his men through the whole opera (Aida) from memory. That performance, 54 years ago, was Conductor Arturo Toscanini's first. Last week white-haired Maestro Toscanini made ready to play his first return engagement in Rio. With the NBC Symphony he sailed on a South...