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...solidly behind the U. S. and the Monroe Doctrine. While Major Alencastro Guimaraes negotiated for railroad materials, Brazil tightened its ties with the democracies by concluding a pact permitting Britain to buy from Brazil without transfer of currency. Militarily Brazil moved closer to the U. S. as General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, urging defensive cooperation of all the Americas, called on the U. S. to lend its material and technical superiority to the task...
...Portugal's famous explorers, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Alvares Cabral and Ferdinand Magellan, extended the horizons of the world, Portugal became the great European mart for silks, spices, precious metals and gems from the Indies. Reaching her zenith by 1580, she began rapidly to decline, fell under Spanish rule for 60 years until a revolution in 1640 restored her independence. Napoleon drove her ruler to Brazil in 1807 and in 1822 that country declared its independence. Her possessions plucked away by oncoming nations, she saw her great empire shrink and her prestige wane. Her last king...
Further cultural activities of Cossel include obtaining German decorations for War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra and Army Chief of Staff General Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro. Visiting Berlin last year, General Goes Monteiro toasted "the beautiful principles" of Naziism...
...Last week the Selenga and her cargo were still detained at Hong Kong, when in came the Vladimir Mayakovsky, also under British escort. She had 4,000 tons of U. S. copper and a lot of molybdenite aboard, cleared from Manzanillo on Mexico's west coast and San Pedro, Calif. She, too, was bound for Vladivostok. Her cargo, too, was suspect as contraband for Germany...
Chile's homely little President Pedro Aguirre Cerda is popularly known as Don Tinto because of the excellent red wine of the vineyards that made him rich...