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...very special reason they halted without, violently coercing Brazil or Spain. They halted for respite from their own quarrels...
...many a harassed statesman the opportunity to blame the whole fiasco upon Brazil came as a sort of diabolic godsend...
Formula. All the diplomats present unquestionably racked their brains for a "formula"?a way around these obstacles which would salve everyone's prestige. The stand which Brazil eventually took was, as a matter of fact, announced by her (and by Spain as well) when the delegates first assembled. Both Spain and Brazil were prevailed upon to abandon their blockade for several days (TIME, March 22), but at that time the Germans and French were unable to agree. Early last week Premier Briand and Dr. Stresemann blazoned it abroad that they were agreed upon one* of the many tentative "formulas...
...hours later the storm burst at a secret session of the Council. Senhor Afranio Mello Franco announced his original stand once more and clung to it. An informal caucus of the delegates of nine Latin American nations twice met and twice repudiated the declaration of Senhor Franco that Brazil was only holding firm in the interest of all Latin America...
Briefly, the Brazilians so flagrantly defied the European powers and the Latin American nations, that the merest dullard asked: "With what power or powers is Brazil secretly in cahoots? With the Germans? With the French? With Italy, since Mussolini is notoriously anti-League...