Word: rondon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.D.C. agents in Rio had a difference of opinion. Daveron wanted to push west through the plains of Bolivia, then north to the rubber country. The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Mariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist. Neither side budged. So the R.D.C., despairing of the mules project, sold most of the beasts...
Starting in 1907, Brazil's great Indian expert, General Candido Rondon, tried his hand. On one memorable march of 2,000 miles, Rondon was twice wounded by arrows. His party never brought one Chavante back to civilization. Its presents were scorned. But Rondon clung to the policy of pacification through love-a policy that became the cornerstone of Brazil's service for the protection of Indians...
Three years ago, the Chavantes again stood in the path of Brazil's great dream-the "March to the West." Airmen of the Brazilian Central Foundation, a grandiose colonizing scheme, dropped on them pots, pans and even pictures of Hollywood pinup girls. That only frightened the Indians. Rondon's Indian Service tried again. More presents were left: machetes, bright cloth. Recently, the Indians nibbled. Every 15 days they gathered in large numbers for the gifts. Last week the 156-year-old war was over. To General Rondon, now 82 and in Rio, the leader of the mission...
...little Army mail plane squealed to a stop on Rio's airport. Out stepped a half-naked Indian. He was Chief Inai Cachirere of Matto Grosso's Javaes Indians. In broken Portuguese he demanded an audience with General Candido Rondon, 80, begetter of Brazil's enlightened Indian policy. Said full-blooded Chief Cachirere to part-Indian General Rondon: "Old Father, I come to tell you that a white man bought 2,986 kilograms of quartz crystal from the Javaes Indians and did not pay for it. The man is Lauro Melo and he lives at Rua Machado...
...wilderness airstrip near the chief's village. With necklaces they had lured his pretty daughter into their plane, flown her away. The Chief had set out on foot in search of his kidnapped daughter. Months later, in the distant State of Paraiba, he had found the princess. Rondon, advised of the reunion, had Chief and princess flown back to the grateful tribe...