Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Albania 2, Armenia 2, Australia 1, Brazil 1, Canada 51, Chile 1, China 43, Cuba 3, Denmark 3, Egypt 3, England 6, France 8, Gold Coast 1, Greece 2, Holland 2, Hungary 1, India 6, British West Indies 2, Japan 33, Mexico 3, Norway 10, Russia 4, Siam 1, South Africa 12, Sweden 6, Switzerland 4, Turkey 2, Venezuela 1, West Africa...
Seven foreign countries are represented, led by China with 9 men. Canada follows with 6, while Japan, Brazil, Bolivia, France, and Egypt have one each...
...honestly believe, that has caused friction and misunderstanding between the great republic of the North and the peoples south of the Rio Grande. They believe that the rights of Colombia, Santo Domingo, or Porto Rico, are every bit as sacred as the rights of Argentina, the United States, or Brazil. Internal disorder they may have had, but acts of aggression they have not committed...
This at once brings up the much discussed question of the so-called German peril in Brazil. Although no official figures are available as to the size of the German colonies in southern Brazil, it has recently been estimated by impartial investigators that the Teutonic population is between 250,000 and 300,000, on the face of it an ominous figure. But the fact that the colonies have no access to the outside world except by rail-roads controlled by French and English capital goes far towards nullifying the danger. Add to this the fact that the Germans are surrounded...
...national resources of the Latin-American countries which are available for belligerent purposes one must note first of all the manganese ore of Brazil. At present practically all of the manganese used by the steel industries of the United States is obtained from Brazil. Because of the importance of this material in the manufacture of heavy ordnance, gun carriages, etc., it is highly desirable that our relations with this southern republic should be just as cordial as possible...