Word: soldier-diplomat
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...form of $120,000,000 credit was served last March to Brazil's Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha. Beady-eyed, flap-chinned General Goés Monteiro was on a military mission, returning the visit U. S. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall had just paid him. That capable soldier-diplomat was dispatched to Brazil after authoritarian-minded Goés Monteiro began toasting the discipline, glory and honor of the German Army and had accepted an invitation to review Nazi troops. Last week the U. S. War Department, announcing its plans to toast Goes Monteiro this week, disclosed that instead...