Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion was well worth the clapping. Earlier in the week General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters had formally authorized the reopening of stock exchanges in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, closed down since war...
Friendship was slightly strained in the early part of World War II when many Brazilians, among them Dutra (then Minister of War), were so impressed by the Nazi war machine that they were accused of being pro-Nazi. They shucked such views after Pearl Harbor and for the rest of the war, as in World War I, Brazil stood with...
...war the U.S. needed Brazil as a strategic base and as a continuing source of essential minerals (manganese, quartz, mica). Today, Brazil is the cornerstone of the U.S. policy of hemispheric defense. Brazil, which benefited greatly from U.S. wartime expenditures, looks to the U.S. in peacetime for the aid that private and public capital can give to the building of the country. Brazilians want to tap U.S. technical skill for the development of the natural resources that are spread in abundance over the world's fourth largest nation. In area, only the U.S.S.R., China and Canada are larger than...
Dutra does not smoke and seldom drinks. He is completely without side. On Sundays and on personal outings, he rides in a private car with a civilian license plate. When he was Minister of War, he ordered the police to take away a detective posted for protection at his door. "That man," he said, "is attracting unfavorable attention to my house." One of his first official acts as President was to abolish the presidential bodyguard...
...social reformer, soon moved toward dictatorship. Before he was through, he was ruling by decree, had established an ironbound press censorship, and jailed his critics. Three times Dutra saved Vargas from overthrow. He got his reward. By 1935, he was a General of Division; the next year, Minister of War...