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...holiday crowd jampacking the Vasco da Gama football stadium, President Vargas reviewed the contributions of Brazil to the Allied cause, promised that cooperation with the Allies would be even .closer "in the reconstruction period," which he forecast would be "equally difficult." Elections, he explained, would have to await the war's end and "a calm atmosphere...
Forty-four planes, mostly trainers, in the largest flyaway delivery yet to come from the U.S., arrived in Rio. Brazil already has a small but smartly trained air force. The general staff (see cut) includes Deputy Chief of Staff Colonel Carlos Brazil, Colonel Vasco Secco of the Joint Brazil-U.S. Air Commission, Lieut. Colonel Raimundo Aboim, Lieut. Colonel Loyla Daher, Lieut. Colonel Carlos Coelho and Aviation Major Adil de Oliveira. The navy was augmented by six warships, built in Brazilian shipyards for Great Britain and now returned by Britain to its new ally. To help Brazil tune...
Died. Dom José Telles da Gama, Marquis of Niza and Count of Vidigueira, 64, last direct descendant of the great Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama; in Lisbon...
...little more than a century and a half (from 1415 to 1581) little Portugal was one of the most aggressive and wealthiest countries in Europe. Egged on by the tough little kings of the House of Aviz, her explorers (Pedro Alvares Cabral, Tristao da Cunha, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, Lourengo de Almeida, et al.) ranged the seas from Greenland to Japan, netted an empire second only to Spain's. Like most nouveau riche nations, 15th-Century Portugal then began to take an interest in art. She carefully coddled a school of Portuguese painters, began a Portuguese Renaissance...
...Portugal's famous explorers, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Alvares Cabral and Ferdinand Magellan, extended the horizons of the world, Portugal became the great European mart for silks, spices, precious metals and gems from the Indies. Reaching her zenith by 1580, she began rapidly to decline, fell under Spanish rule for 60 years until a revolution in 1640 restored her independence. Napoleon drove her ruler to Brazil in 1807 and in 1822 that country declared its independence. Her possessions plucked away by oncoming nations, she saw her great empire shrink and her prestige wane. Her last king...