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...Samuel Guy Inman urged withdrawal of the U. S. Naval Mission in Brazil in order to stop the armament race in South America...
Although these young Balboas do not insist that there is a short-cut to the Pacific through Brazil, they believe themselves to be on the trail of a strange tribe of Indians ruled over by a squad of two hundred white women. Here is, indeed, a case of snarled complexes--Kawaian, Amazonian, perhaps even a "Green Mansion" complex. The details of the story were given to the party by a sea-faring man in a waterfront saloon of Marseilles. He had once travelled near the land of the multitudinous queens and had been told of their ex-stance by down...
...college of cardinals ? the Princes of the Church?is limited to 70. At present there are only 60, of whom 28 are Italian, six Spanish, six French, five German; two each are from England, Australia, the United States, Poland; one each from Ireland, Brazil, Portugal, Holland, Hungary, Canada, Belgium...
...cotton planting experiments made elsewhere by other nations. The French, for example, are reported to be trying out possibilities of cotton production in their Mediterranean colonies. Great Britain has been studying ways and means of increasing the cotton output of her colonies, particularly in South Africa, Egypt, Australia. Brazil, which years ago gave up cotton for other crops, is now planning to benefit from current soaring prices by again sowing her fields in cotton. It is apparent, therefore, that unless Government experts under the Department of Agriculture can shortly solve the weevil problem, the American cotton planter will face uncertain...
What part the United States plays among the rumors and threats of war is indicated by the speech of Dr. Luis de Elizalde at Buenos Aires. Though he though that Brazil does not really want war, he believes that Brazil's actions are being directed by the United States to catechize South America in order to balance a growing Anglo Japanese entente. Such a notion is but natural with resentment at the "big-brother" attitude of the Monroe doctrine scarce appeased by the Pan-American movement...