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...passenger in a vacant street (for it was earliest morning) heard a scream from a shuttered birdshop, and peered in to see fire strutting and pecking there like a great red cock while 200 canaries fluttered on the shelves, dogs pawed their wire stalls, and in the window a Brazil ian parrot cried out over and over in the terrible voice of a man unnerved by fear. Firemen broke down the door, took out the dogs, some alive, some dead; the 200 gay canaries, all dead; the parrot, dead...
League Council. The Assembly passed a Venezuelan resolution providing that rotations of the nonpermanent seats on the League Council shall be observed from the election of 1926. 2) The same nations were elected to the nonpermanent seats this year as last, viz.: Belgium, Brazil, Spain, Sweden, Czecho-Slovakia and Uruguay.* 3) China lagged but six votes behind Belgium for the sixth nonpermanent seat...
About this time Senor de Leon must be feeling very important at the thought of sitting at the head of such an august assemblage, with the representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Czecho-Slovakia, Sweden and Uruguay ranged about him under his direction. But the League is yet such a loosely knit body that the importance of its officers as such is small, and that the importance of those who attend meetings is only in proportion to the power of the nation which each represents...
Many years ago the Brazilian Gov ernment undertook a policy of "coffee valorization," which in simpler English means rigging the world market for coffee, of which Brazil is the chief producing nation. Every now and again, high prices thus established would cur tail consumption and encourage large production, and a large surplus would result which would have to be held off the market lest its sale smash the artificially high prices...
Recently, it again became necessary for Brazil to raise money to rig the coffee market further. The Federal Government of Brazil passed the proposition along to Sao Paulo, the State in Brazil which grows most of the coffee. Sao Paulo sent representatives to Manhattan to secure a loan of $30,000,000 to $40,000,000. But by this time common sense had returned to the State Department and the Manhattan bankers alike. The Sao Paulo officials were politely informed that from now on it would be against U. S. policy to provide funds to put up prices on imported...