Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pedro de Goés Monteiro is a hard-drinking ex-cowboy who worships Napoleon, has false teeth, and in part owes his rise to Oswaldo Aranha. He talks so much about imbuing Brazilians with military spirit that he has had to deny any personal ambition to be a military dictator. To all appearances he is a good & loyal servant of Dictator-President Getulio Vargas and as such he will be accorded honors only less than those due a visiting ruler. A tank escort, a military guard at the Brazilian Embassy, a chat with Franklin Roosevelt, tea with Cordell Hull...
Last year the Brazilian Fascist organization of Integralistas tried a spectacular, unsuccessful coup against President Getulio Vargas. Suspicion was high that Germans in Brazil had had a hand in the affair. Dr. Karl Ritter, German Ambassador to Brazil, protested anti-Nazi measures following the uprising and soon after ward the Brazilian Government declared him persona non grata. For retaliation Germany asked that the Brazilian Ambassador to Berlin leave...
Although German-Brazilian trade continued to flourish, Brazil and Germany pouted diplomatically at each other throughout the winter. Italy, Germany's Axis partner, joined the pouting when it tried unsuccessfully to get Brazilian coffee by barter arrangement rather than pay gold for it. This spring Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, daughter of Benito Mussolini and a capable behind-the-scenes Axis diplomat, visited Brazil (TIME, May 22). While "health" Daughter trip, Edda said Brazilians she was thought only her on a visit somehow connected with Axis diplomacy...
...visitors who went to see the choicest art of the hemisphere, the exhibition provided one big disappointment and one pleasant surprise. The disappointment was the Brazilian section, which seemed to have been picked by a myopic bartender and consisted almost exclusively of washed-out imitation of European academicism. That a native art of considerable vigor is budding in Brazil, World's Fair visitors have already learned from murals in the Brazilian pavilion by Rio de Janeiro's popular, roly-poly Candido Portinari. There was nothing by him in the show...
...Gamas discovered that Figliola had already been signed up by a football club in Genoa, in coffee-hungry Italy. More eager than ever, they cabled Genoa, offered to buy his contract. Prompt was the reply: the Italian Football Federation would permit the Genoese club to release Figliola if the Brazilian club would pay for him with coffee beans...