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...occasion was the state visit of paunchy, pompous Senhor Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, to big, soldierly President Agustin P. Justo of Argentina. In 1933 President Justo paid a call on President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro which was notably successful in furthering trade and tourist traffic between the two countries. Now with suggestions from the Silver Jubilee in London, and a few original ideas of her own. Argentina was set to give her Brazilian neighbors a return welcome they would not soon forget...
Already in the harbor was the Brazilian transport Siqueira with 600 army and navy cadets aboard, and Brazil's pride, the brass band of the Brazilian Military Academy. Up to the dock where waited President Justo, and in their shiniest toppers, his entire Cabinet, warped the great São Paulo. Guns belched out national salutes, and in the midst of the hubbub there was suddenly a great banging of crate lids and fluttering of wings. Members of the Buenos Aires Pigeon Society were releasing 10,000 bewildered white birds, each with one wing striped blue and white...
...several years France has operated an airmail service to South America. In Argentina and Southern Brazil there are far more Italians than Frenchmen. With Italian assistance this service will be speeded up and will eventually include passenger planes...
...Ambassador Saito's Washington Embassy and Minister Ariyoshi's Peiping Legation are twin cornerstones of Japanese world diplomacy. Minister Ariyoshi was transferred from Brazil in 1932. Japan's contact man in her recent devious dealings with Chinese politicos, he seldom remains in one place very long but plies between the Japanese diplomatic and consular offices at Nanking, Peiping and Shanghai...
...Yildiz Harem of Abdul Hamid "The Damned" (deposed 1909, died 1918). "As President of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship." crisply observed Britain's Margery Corbett Ashby, "I think we can all feel that 1934 was a notable year. In 1934 the women of Brazil and the women of Turkey were accorded the vote and equal status with...