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...Southern Cross (Pan-American)−Edwin Vernon Morgan, US. Ambassador to Brazil...
Thus, after much hostility, embittered by personal feelings and actions, the revolt broke out in Sao Paulo, richest State of Brazil, and battle is now being waged between "liberalism" in power and "reactionism" out of power...
Meanwhile, the abnormally high prices for cotton are stimulating production in foreign countries. Egypt is expected to increase its cotton acreage 10%. Heavier planting is also expected in the Sudan and Uganda, whose potential acreage is estimated at about 2,250,000 acres. Among South American countries, Brazil has taken the lead as a cotton producer, yet Argentina has 14,000,000 acres available for the crop. But all these new cotton territories face serious difficulties. In the upper African districts, irrigation is the problem. In Brazil, the cotton area is in the interior valleys where transportation is poor...
Then the Brazilian censor swore he had found a leak. He arrested Charles M. Kinsolving, manager of the United Press in Brazil, charged him with "defiance." The American Chargé d'Affaires remonstrated, Kinsolving was freed...
Within the week came news that the Brazilian Government had revoked the rights, not only of the United Press, but of the Associated Press as well, to send or receive despatches in Brazil on any news subject...