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Looking daily fatter and persistently genial, President-Elect Hoover last week visited Uruguay and Brazil. The night before the-night-before-Christmas he sailed on the U. S. S. Utah from Rio de Janeiro for home...
...Strong Brazil. Brazilian Senators made speeches (in Portuguese, the national tongue). Brazilian historians published essays. The Brazilian Jornal do Commercio, quasi-official daily, published an editorial rehearsing U. S.-Brazilian friendship, recalling that Brazil was first to recognize the Monroe Doctrine. The editorial also said: "Although we have always recognized what we owe to Europe and the necessity of our relations with the Old World, still we all know what we owe to solidarity of interests with the United States. We admire the North Americans and do not fear them, knowing that we are as strong a people as they...
Plantation rubber from the British and Dutch possessions in the Far East broke Brazil's virtual rubber monopoly and burst her rubber boom in 1910. Only recently has Henry Ford stirred Brazilian hopes of reviving the good old rubber days, by leasing over 3,000,000 Amazonian acres on which Fordized rubber plantations are being started. Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. Notably a ferocious and somewhat mysterious Italian who calls himself "The King of the Xingu" has terrorized and virtually enslaved several tribes on the Xingu River who now meekly gather...
...bags are exported yearly, over 7,000,000 to the U. S., and a mere 20,000 to the tea-addicted British Isles. Seventy per cent of Brazilian exports consist of coffee. So long as the bean is crushed and drunk, the ideal-for-coffee-growing southern states of Brazil will remain rich-if overproduction is avoided. During the overproduction crisis of 1906 the Government of Brazil bought and held 8,500,000 bags of coffee, lest the market be gutted. Unlike most such desperate measures, this one succeeded. Since then the increasing U.S. taste for coffee has spelled...
Superficially the 20 United States of Venezuela possess a Government and Constitution modeled-like Brazil's-on that of the 48 United States of North America; but decades of practice have enabled shrewd General Gomez to circumvent or pervert almost all these scrap-of-paper safeguards of Democracy...