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...Brazil to Syria to Home. In 1919 General Gamelin headed the French military mission to Brazil, a job requiring the greatest tact since the old German pre-War influence in the Brazilian Army was still strong. In 1925 he was recalled and soon sent to Syria to help put down the Druse revolt, a suppression which he later succeeded in accomplishing alone with considerable bloodshed on the part of the Druses. He was on hand when French planes and artillery wiped out 1,456 civilians in the native quarters of Damascus, thus proving that Maurice Gamelin had no particular interest...
...other commodities Japan might lose her U.S. market more or less completely but, except as Japan's domestic consumption of cotton fell off, U.S. cotton producers might not suffer: if Brazil, for example, sells cotton to Japan instead of Britain, the U.S. should be able to sell to Britain instead of Japan...
...then refused a third term "following United States precedent" and now rules instead as generalissimo of the army. He was much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...
Neutrality legislation of the 1936-37 type might have curious effects in the event of a war involving, say, Brazil and the Argentine. If the U.S. were to embargo the shipments of lethal weapons to these countries in the event of war, any interested European nation-say. Germany -could step in and subsidize the sort of victory that seemed best calculated to damage the Monroe Doctrine. The U. S. would thus find its neutrality policy contravening an even older policy and threatening the safety of the Panama Canal, which is vital to the two-ocean effectiveness...
Investigating this strange change of heart, the U. S. State Department learned that the Army had smelled a Red rat: they did not like the radical sound of World Federation of Education Associations. Brazil's Government politely said that Rio de Janeiro would be glad to wine and dine the world's teachers but drew the line at a formal meeting...