Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last day in Rio was topped off by reviewing a three-hour military parade celebrating Brazil's 125th anniversary of independence (see LATIN AMERICA). Then he boarded the Missouri for a long, leisurely voyage home...
...they have been friends in need." That night, there was a formal state dinner at Itamarati Palace. Over champagne, Truman cordially invited Dutra and his family to visit the U.S. Said Truman: "We have never had such a reception. ... I am tempted to come and run for mayor of Rio de Janeiro and I think I could be elected...
...great week for the Brazilians. With pomp & circumstance the Rio Conference drew to a triumphant close. To visiting President Harry Truman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a million cariocas gave a mighty civic reception. And at week's end, proud in the presence of distinguished guests, Brazil observed the 125th anniversary of national independence...
Flags decked Rio's streets, but after the first tumultuous reception, rain fell on the Rio that was built for sunshine. The irrepressible cariocas went indoors and carried on in style. Rio had not seen so many and such lavish parties since the 1920 visit of Albert I, King of the Belgians...
...conference windup was all but lost in the fun. Delegates gathered at the fog-bound Quitandinha Hotel for one last session. That afternoon, in the soft-green-walled second-story "treaty room" of the Itamarati, they signed their names in the blue leather-bound volume entitled "Treaty of Rio de Janeiro." George Marshall arrived last and wrote his first initial so large that it had to be blotted before he could continue. Sol Bloom was barely prevented from signing for Brazil...