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...very day that a German major-general urged the wholesale peaceful invasion of Latin America by the cultural prophets of the German Reich, in the economic sphere the United States launched its first major counter-attack against Nazi penetration of South America. The United States-Brazil trade agreements put a sudden halt to the growth of the German economic domination of Brazil, and provided a strong impulse to the growth of closer economic alliance of the United States with its Latin-American neighbors...
...most important terms of the agreement are the arrangements for a vast extension of credits by the United States to Brazil, and the latter's agreement to free its foreign exchange for commercial transactions. Here is a country with a large German population, loaded down with Nazi propaganda, which decided that the best hope for economic improvement lay in the establishment of a free exchange market. It means that Germany which has had a steadily growing Brazilian trade through her barter arrangements and use of restricted foreign exchange, will find Brazilian market's open to other countries, especially...
...United States, the Export-Import Bank's advance of nearly twenty million dollars of acceptance credit will provide exchange to pay American exporters for unpaid merchandise. Moreover, the large amount of government aid will tend to encourage new American capital investments in Brazil. The pact marks an important step in the development of free trade relations between North and South American countries...
...tall tales told by imaginative travelers about others much bigger and much more dreadful. Miss Prior, who dismisses them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a "man-eating tree" in Madagascar. A sojourner in Brazil said he saw a tree which attracted monkeys by means of a peculiar odor, hemmed them in a prison of leaves, dropped their bare bones after three days. Centuries ago a very tall tale popped up about a gigantic Death Flower on a South Pacific island which lured human victims inside...
...wealthy and voluptuous Hollywood has-been, Lia Tora by name. Last week Senhor Valverde was back in jail, with a probable 17-year hard-labor sentence (instead of the previous eight and one-half) before him. Also in jail, charged with furnishing him asylum, was pretty Lia Tora. And Brazil's men of justice were scratching their heads over what hard labor to set her soft, shapely arms a-doing for a possible seven years...