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Antonio Ruiz, Thomas A. Hill,
Managing Editor. Advertising Manager
Published daily except Monday Entered as secono class matter at the
Post Office of Miami Springs, Fla., on February 3, 1954
EDITORIAL
IS THERE COMMUNISM IN LATIN AMERICA?
As dangerous for the fate of continental democracy
Is that dictators or irresponsible heads of government
systematically call communist anynone who oppposes them
or all those who ardently wish to see republican institutions
restored, as that ill-intentioned persons, or those extremely
naive, declare that in Latin America communist infiltra
tion does not exist, in their continued, veiled and harmful
campaigns.
Identification of the communist movement in the Con
tinent has become a very difficult matter, mostly because
of that disloyal desire, on both sides, to deceive everybody.
Denunciation by a Government, unless it is a regime
of proven democratic sincerity, is always received with
certain suspicion by other Governments and by all the
people. There is always a fear that it is only one of many
maneuvers tending to discredit any movement favoring
restoration of democracy. In the same manner, the declara
tion that there is no communist problem, when it comes
from elements of leftist tendencies or who live practically
outside of the world of reality, is also received with mistrust,
because there is a fear that it has the purpose to deceive,
in order to favor the progress of red infiltration, or that
it is one of many statements made by dreamers who, with
the alergy they have for hard, naked reality, confuse the
people, or make them deviate from the path of truth.
For Russia not to show a marked interest in Latin
America, it would be necessary that this group of twenty
nations completely lacked significance in international
affairs, or that they represented nothing for the immediate
future of the world. The truth Is that Latin America has
great value at present in the community of nations, and,
above all, it has a better future than any other region on
earth. Therefore, even if there was no physical proof of
the Soviet infiltration —and there is— there is no reason
to believe that Russia would neglect the all important Latin
American field, when it is a well-known fact that she is In
terested in subjugating the whole world through direct
armed violence or through lies about alleged doctrines of
vindication, tending to create her Communist Empire on
the foundation of moral destruction of all peoples.
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Latin American Finance
and Trade News Reports
POLIO INOCULATION
PROGRAM IN BRAZIL
WASHINGTON A shipment
•f 120.000 ce.’s of poliomyelitis
(Salk) vaccine from the United
States has enabled Brazil to be
gin its largest mass inoculation
against infantile paralysis to date,
the Bureau of Foreign Commerce,
U.S. Commerce Department, has
reported
Commencing in five clinics in
Curitiba capital of the State of f
Parana, m southern Brazil, the pro
gram will be extended throughout |
the State Childien from the ages
of 5 months to 8 years are being
inoculated.
The vaccine was purchased from
U.S producers by the State of
Parana with the aid ol the Banco
de Brazil and was licensed for ship
ment from the United States un
der the Commerce Department’s
5-million cc. export quota limita
tion for the fourth quarter of
1957. It is enough to give two in
oculations to 6C.000 children.
The American Consul at Curiti
ba. J. E Widenmeyer, has stated
the response to the program has
been exceilent. Clinics are crowd
ed with mothers and babies. It is
expected that 50,000 cc.’s will be
used in Curitiba alone, which has a
population of about 3
Brazil’s reported polio incidence
ii among the highest in the Latin
American countries Inoculation
programs are already in progress
in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo,
and as additional vaccine is made
available, programs will be ex’
panded to include rural areas.
The 120,000 brings to a total of
744,225 cc’s the Salk vaccine li
censed to Brazil since the start of
its Government-sponsored pro
grams in late 1956.
Parana State authorities have
voiced their appreciation of the al
location to the American Consulate
and expressed the hope that suf
ficient vaccine would be forthcom
ing to complete the program.
Commerce Department officials
said that the United States will
continue to give priority to those
countries conducting government
sponsored immunization programs
and that every effort will be made
to assist in the'r completion.
ILO-LA PAZ HIGHWAY
APPROVED BY PERU
WASHINGTON An agree
ment signed between Peru and Bo
livia early in 1957, calling for the
immediate constructions of a high
way between 110 and La Paz has
be?n approved by the Peruvian
Congress A survey of the direct
highway between the two cities
will begin immediately after Bo
livia ratifies the agreement.
The proposed highway is to be
paved and will follow a route from
The Daily
the seaport of 110 through Mo
quegua, Santa Rosa, Mazo Cruz,
and Desaguadero.
The appropriations bill before
the Peruvian Congress does not
provide funds for construction of
the new road nor is the project
included in the Government’s five
year highway program. The cost,
according to a Peruvian official,
will be paid with funds col
lected from toll charges. It is un
derstood that each country will
supervise constiuction and bear
the cost within its respective bor
ders.
The project is one ot two recom
mended by the Peruvain-Bolivian
Mixed Commission appointed in
1956. The other project, also ap
proved by the Peruvian Congress, j
authorizes a preliminary study of I
utilization of the waters of Lake
Titicaca
TIMBERLAND OFFERED
IN COLOMBIA
WASHINGTON The Colom
bian firm of Cambac, Ltda., Cali,
Colombia, is offering approxima
tely 65.000 hectares of coastal for
est, including mahogany, virola,
balsa, and other pulpy woods tor
exploitation.
Organized to develop an oil-pro
ducing industry from African
palm, the Colombian firm wishes
to clear the coastal forest area for
this purpose. U.S. investors engag
ed in lumbering operations, and
or seeking a source of virgin tim
ber are invited to consider the
Cambac property.
Correspondence may be addres
sed to Cambac, Ltda., Apartado
Aereo 4147, Cali, Valle, Colombia.
VALPARAISO FREIGHT
SURCHARGE SUSPENDED
WASHINGTON The 25 per
cent surcharge on cargo destined
for the Port of Valparaiso, Chile,
which was slated to become effec
tive in June, has been suspended
until further notice, American and
European shipping companies
operating cargo vessels to the port
have announced.
Imposition of the surcharge, ori
ginally announced last year and
postponed several times, was un
der consideration because of un
usual costs resulting from port
inadequacies, lack of storage
space, work stoppages and pilfer
age.
Suspension of the surcharge
came about partly because the de
cline in imports, as a result of de
posit requirements and dollar
shortages, has lessened congestion
at the port. Also, Government of
ficials have improved the admin
istration of the port.
Top Representatives of World
Coffee Producing Countries to
Discuss Industry Crisis Today 1
NEW YORK (UPI). Top
leaders of Latin American coffee
production are arriving in this
city, to take part in the emergen
cy meeting to be held in Washing
ton tomorrow, coinciding with a
sharp drop in the bean prices.
Before continuing their trip to
Washington, the coffeemen are ex
changing viewpoints at a meeting
in the Pan American Coffee Bur
eau here.
The Washington meeting was
called by Colombian Ambassador
Jose Gutierrez Gomez, President
of the group making a survey of
the coffee situation, which in
cludes representatives of 16 Latin
American countries, the United
States, European and African
countries interested in coffee pro
duction.
The Latin American delegates
will discuss Friday the recommen
dations they will submit to the full
session of the group, in search of
a solution of the problem created
by overproduction. The Latin Am
erican suggestions will be consider
ed later by representatives of Eu
ropean and African producers.
The caliber and number of the
men attending tomorrow’s meet
ing gives an idea of the import
ance given to the themes to be
Know thy
Neighbor
Bq ANTONIO RUIZ
MEXICO —(Continued)— The
Santa Prisea Church in Taxco do
minates the town. Built by a
French miner, Jose de la Borda,
as a lasting testimony of his grati
tude to God for the wealth he ob
tained from the mine once located
in that site, the church is one of
the finest examples of Churrigue
resque architecture in the world.
In its interior there are beautiful
! paintings by Cabrera and other
noted artists. The main altar is
! overpowering in its sneer magni
ficense.
Memories of the fabulous
French' miner are sprinkled
throughout Taxco. The “Casa Bor
da”, on the northeast side of the
,main plaza, was built by Don Jose
as a home and for his administra
tive offices. On the west side of
the plaza is the fountain donated
by him to the town; however, the
Church of Santa Prisea is the
greatest monument recalling the
man who expressed his deepest ap- ;
predation by saying: "Borda re- -
turns to God what God has given
Borda”
Everywhere in the town are
winding, narrow streets, quaint
nooks, colonial houses and entran
cing spots. Some of the homes
have been converted into verita
ble museums, housing objects of
art. old oaintings of inestimable
j value, tile work, 17th century dra
! peries and furniture, as well as
arts and crafts of that and earlier
periods.
Located at vantage points over
looking the town proper, as well
as on central locations, are mod- j
ern hotels, all built in keeping
with the centur.es old aspect of
the town. Previous to the opening
of the paved highway to Acapulco,
which encircles the town, Taxco
had been almost inaccessible, ex
cept by norse or muleback. The
Mexican Government, recognizing
the importance of protecting Tax
co’s 17th century beauty, decreed
the city a national monument and
forbade any changes. No new
structures have been permitted
and any additions to hotels and
inns must be in strict keeping with
early architectuial style. Streets
and lanes still have the cobble
stone laid by the town’s founders,
and bridees are the same as those
built by the first Spaniards who
arrived there
For *he artist and writer, as well
as for the tourist just in search of
fun and relaxation, Taxco is a pa
radise. Its indescribable beauty
and charm, its quaint streets, love
ly homes perched high along the
side of tne mountain, with balco
nies and patios laden with beauti
ful flowers and overgrown multi
hued vines, its shady plazas with
benphes and seats carved out of
solid rock set under ancient laurel
trees, lure and hold spellbound all
who come to visit the city or to
stay there.
No other place is quite as ro
mantic and beautiful as Taxco.
1 Warm days and cool nights the
year round, permit uninterrupted
sightseeing, drawing, photograph
ing. painting ano writing, all in
the open under sunmy skies or star
lit heavens. No other place is as
r perfect for utter relaxation. Taxco,
> unchanged and timeless, offers the
- visitor unsurpassed traditional hos
pitality. \
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For a better understanding between the Americas
MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA., FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1958
discussed. Brazil, whose coffee suf
fered recently a sharp decline,
will be represented by Paulo Guz
zo and Vito Sa. Colombia will have
at the meeting Arturo Gomez Ja
ramillo, Manager of the National
Federation of Coffee Growers, and
Andres Uribe, its U.S. represen
tative. Besides, her Ambassador,
Jos6 Gutierrez Gomez, will preside
the meeting.
The Mexican delegation in
cludes Justo Fernandez, Juan Mar
tinez, Juan Rebolledo, Maclovio Pi
na Morales and Miguel Angel Cor
dera, President of the Mexican
Coffee Commission, he Salvado
rean group includes Arturo Ra
mon Gonzalez, Manager of the Cof
fee Company; Agustin Alfaro; Car
los Aviles and J. Adalberto Bola
nos, President of the Coffee As
sociation. he delegation will be
joined by Carlos Cordero, Salva
dorean coffee representative in
New York.
The Costa Rican delegation will
have Manuel Escalante, Ambassa
dor in Washington, and eoffeeman
Rodolfo Peters, ex-Ambassador in
Rio. Besides these six countries,
among which are the principal cof
fee producers of the Western
Hemisphere, ten more Latin Am
erican coffee producing countries
will be represented.
The group studying the coffee
problems, recently organized in
Washington with U.S. sponsorship
and participation of Latin Ameri
cans, Europeans and Africans, is
trying to find a formula to stabil
ize coffee prices, which are threat
ened by a great overproduction,
with world surplus estimated to
reach 35 million bags by June 30,
1959.
Brazil alone will have a surplus
of more than twenty million bags
by June 30,1959. Os this, two and
a half million bags will be used
as fertilizer; thirty percent will
be sold in Brazil at reduced prices,
and the remaining 60 per cent will
go to the world market.
Colombia Requests OAS Opinion on
Asylum for Armed Forces Officers
WASHINGTON (UPI)— Colom
bia has requested an opinon from
the Inter American Juridical Com
mittee, regarding the question of
whether officers of the Armed
Forces in active service have the
right to diplomatic asylum.
The Council of the Organizacion
of American States (OAS) agreed
to submit the matter to the com
mittee, which is to meet in Rio de
Janeiro on July 15, and is expect
ed to report “on due time”
to the Council. Only El Salva
dor and Guatemala abstained when
the Colombian request was sub
mitted to a vote.
Those two countries, together
with Paraguay, have given asylum
in their embassies in Bogota to a
group of rebel Colombian officers
involved in the abortive plot
against the Government on May
3.
The three countries have re
quested from the Colombian Gov
ernment safeconducts for the of
ficers to abandon Colombian, ter
ritory.
It is possible that safeconducts
are not granted before the Juri
HEMISPHERIC EVENT.
Latin American News in Brief
LANDHOLDERS BATTLE
SQUATTERS IN BRAZIL
CURITIBA, Brazil. (UPl).—Mili
tary police patrolled western Pa
rana State today in an attempt to
maintain order between battling
landholders and squatters.
Reports reaching here said sev-1
eral persons have been killed in |
a violent gunbattle between the
two factions on the banks of the
Azul River.
MOUNTAIN CLIMBER
DIES IN PERU
CARAZ, Peru —(UPI)— Albert
W. Bailey, a 41-year old mountain
climber from Casper, Wyo., died of
pneumonia at a camp near the 16,
000-foot level in the towering An
des mountains, it was announced
here.
Bailey was a member of a party
attempting to climb towering Mt.
Alpamayo. The U. S. Embassy af
ter an exchange of messages with
Bailey’s brother, James, said that
his body will be buried on a ranch
near the mountain where he died.
BRAZIL POSTPONES
RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI) I
Sales ot the 1958-59 coffee crop
Cuba And Haiti
Accused of Civil
( Rights Violation
by N. Y. Groups
UNITED NATIONS. —(UPI).—
) The International League for Hu
man Rights and the Inter Ameri
| can Association for Democracy
and Freddom, have approached
U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham.
marskjold, pointing out alleged
cases of violation of political and
civil rights by the Governments of
Cuba and Haiti.
he document is signed by Ro
ger N. Baldwin, the League’s Pres
ident, and Frances R. Grant, Sec
retary of the Inter American Asso
ciation, who released it last night
for publication.
“During the last few months
the communications say— we
have been deeply concerned with
the increase in the number of re
ports from Cuba and Haiti on vio
lations of civil and political liber
ties, against women opposing the
dictatorial regimes of those two
countries”.
The cases mentioned hi the do
cument are
B—Cristina and Lourdes Giral,
sisters, 21 and 25, respectively,
who were found dead in Havana
at midnight, June 13. “Friends
who examined the bodies observed
injuries and blood clots; their
clothes were completely torn”,
they say. According to the report,
the Giral sisters had been arrested
a short time before by a group of
soldiers.
—ln Haiti, protests against the
jailing of Dr. Lise Paret Limardo,
young woman teacher and journal
ist, "seriously ill and kept incom
municado in the Port au Prince
jail. “It also refers to Mrs. Rhea
Jumelle, sister of the ex-candidate
for President, Clement Jumelle,
“jailed as Government reprisal be
cause the authorities have not
been able to find her brothers Cle
ment and Ducasse”. It also men
tions the case of Mrs. Chrislaine
Jean des Quiron, who being ill,
“had to be transferred from the
Portau Prince Military Hospital”.
dical Committee gives an opinon,
or until the new Colombian Gov
ernment assumes power.
President-elect Alberto Lleras
Camargo will be inaugurated as
President of Colombia on August
7. The personal opinion of some
ambassadors to the OAS is that
Lleras Camargo may grant the
safeconducts without waiting for
an opinion of the committee, or
even withdraw the request for an
opinion.
Thus in agreeing to the request,
the ambassadors did not judge the
Colombian position in itself nor
they considered the case of the of
ficers. They only gave due atten
tion to the Colombia request.
In requesting the OAS Council
to send the matter to the Inter
American Juridical Committee,
Colombian Ambassador Jose Gu
tierrez Gomez stressed the tech
nical aspects of the question and
affirmed that Colombia for a long
time has maintained that Army of
ficers have no right to asylum. He
did not submit the case to the
OAS referring specifically to the
Colombian Army officers now in
asylum in several embassies.
have been postponed until July 15
as a result of a dispute between 1
Finance Minister Lucas L6pes and
the coffee Institute.
Lopes, who took office last week
has advised the Institute that the
tgovernment can earmark only
$79 million for price-support cot
j fee purchases this year, compared
! to nearly $118.5 million last year.
The government has been buy
ing up all of Brazil’s coffee surplus
at an average of about $2O a bag.
Lopes will undertake to buy only
80 per cent of the surplus, and he
wants the price cut to a little more
than $lB a bag.
Directors of the Coffee Institute
have appealed to President Jusee
lino Kubitschek to continue the
current policy. The postponement
in coffee sales was ordered pend
ing a final ruling in the case.
LEFTISTS WIN IN
DUTCH GUIANA
PARAMARIBO, Surinam (UPI)
Gov. J. Van Tilburg asked Jo
han Pengel, leader of the domin
ant party in the coalition that
swept last week’s legislative elec-
I tion, to form a new Government
»for this Dutch overseas torritosy.
Castro Calls for Unity
of all Forces Opposing
Batista's Dictatorship
'Ltt's Keep Mexico
as Friend', Journal
of Commerce Says
NEW YORK (UPI) The
“Journal of Commerce” makes a
detailed statement of the elections
of last Sunday in Mexico, and be
sides commenting about the pros
perity of that nation and its
friendly relations with the United
States, it says:
“All this makes a brilliant point
in a world of troubles, and makes
us enter into an analysis which
should not be done, but that needs
more attention in the way conduc
ting our economic relations with
the foreign countries than the one
being given, so far.
“Let us not mention our friend
ship with Mexico simply because
things are running good there.
Let us not become famous as a
nation which reacts in emergen
cies and disastrous cases. When we
have something good, as for exam
ple our relations with Mexico, let
us leave it so, because when time
to account for comes, the things
of that pattern we have are very
few.
“Our principal problem is not to
do correct things only but not to
do improper things through small
reductions in the imports, labor
wages and similar other things.
In present day Mexico, a favorable
opportunity is in sight. It would
be a wrong thing to neglect it”.
The title of the editorial is “Let
us leave it so” and begins saying
that it is ironical that the United
States sometimes disregards her
neighbors and allies unless they
“eoncieve a more dramatic idea of
attraction, as for example, ston
ing ice-President Nixon, taking
American citizens as hostages and
surprising with an spectacular
agreement with the Kremlin”.
U. S. BRAZIL SIGN
URANIUM AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The
United States and Brazil signed
an agreement increasing more
than twice the amount of uranium
that the U.S. will furnish to Brazil
for the use of their atomic re
actors use for research and prepa
ration of the trained personnel.
The agreement is in an amend
ment of the basic pact on coopera
tion in the development of the nu
clear energy in force between both
countries since August 3, 1955.
The amendment increases from
six to fifteen kilograms the maxi
mum amount of uranium enriched
20 percent that the United States
will fflrnish to Brazil.
Henrique Rodriguez Valle, Bra
zilian Commercial Counselor in
this city, signed for his country.
Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secret
ary of State for Latin American
affairs, and John Floberg, member
of the Atomic Energy Commis
sion, signed for the United States.
The coalition won 17 of the 21
seats on the legislative council in
the election, sweeping the leftist
United Front out of power. Pen
gel’s national party alone won 9
seats, while its coalition partners
Progressive and United Hindus
tan— won '4 each.
Two of the remainting seats went
to the Indonesian Party, a mem
ber of the United Front, and two
to independents.
VENEZUELA ORGANIZES
HE ARMED FORCES
CARACAS, Venezuela —(UPI)
—The Governing Junta has plac
ed Venezuela’s armed forces under
a General Staff to "balance the
military structure and to provide
for joint land, sea and air plan
ning”.
The weekend order creating the
General Staff abolished the indivi
dual staffs ot the Army ,Navy and
Air Force.
MEXICO GETS FIRST
ELECTRONIC BRAIN
MEXICO CITY —CUPD— Mexi
co’s first electronic brain will be
installed this week at the Univer
sity City, authorized sources said
! today.
U. S. Fleet Commander in Guantanamo
Checking on Release of Servicemen
NEW YORK —(UPI)— The 26
of July Movement announced that
Fidel Castro, rebel leader, has in
vited all groups opposed to Presi
dent Fulgencio Batista to a meet
ing trying to form a united front.
At the same time, Dr. Mario Lle
rena, president ot the Movement
Exile Committee said that the re
bel forces had two important vic
tories against the government for
ces in the region of Sierra Maes
tra.
Llerena said that according to
a broadcast of the rebel radio
heard in New York, the rebels in
flicted numerous casualties to the
government forces in a battle in
San Lorenzo.
He said that two battallions ot
the army were surrounded by the
rebels and totally defeated. He af
firmed that the government forces
fled desperately, leaving great
amount of provisions and mater
ial and tripoid machine guns,
rifles and ammunition included.
Referring to the meeting for the
formation of a united front
against Batista, Llerena declared
that the communists and the “eo
laborationists sectors”, that is,
those who have accepted the elec
tion program of the government,
will be excluded.
He added that Die united front
HONDURAS PREPARES
FOR MILTON'S VISIT
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
(UPI)— The government has be
gun the preparation for the recep
tion of Dr. Milton Eisenhower dur
ing his visit to Honduras.
President Ramon Vilieda Mora
les in an interview with the As
sistant Editor of “La Prensa” of
Managua, with reference to the
benefits derived by the people and
the government of Honduras from
the visit of President’s Eisenho
wer’s brother, said: “The personal
contact among men, the direct
conversations of the represents
fives of the peoples and govern
ments are the best means conduc
ting to a better comprehension”.
The New York Times Praises the
Moving of the Brazilian Capital
NEW YORK,— (UPl)—Under
the litle “A Capital is Born”, The
New York Times publishes the fol
lowing editorial:
“To move the capital of one of
the largest countries in the world,
and to do it in a matter of four
The brain, similar to the one at
the Massachusetts Technological
Institute was described as a series
of calculating machines capable of
solving problems man would take
years to solve.
It will be made available to phy
sics, geophysics, mathematics and
chemestry students to help them
in their classes. Commercial works
will also be performed.
RUSSIAN ICEBREAKER
VISITS MONTEVIDEO
MONTEVIDEO —(UPI)— The
Russian Icebreaker “OB” arrived
Sunday from its last scientific mis
sion to the Antartic.
Professor W. Kart, head of the
Russian scientists on the “OB”
said the Russians established six
bases in the South Pole.
Kart also said that the data ga
thered by the scientists in the An
tartic will be turned over to the
Russian research organizations in
Moscow.
The “OB” made the trip to Mon
tevideo after calling on Chilean
and Argentine ports. It is sched
uled to leave for Leningrad in a
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must be “as large as possible”, in
cluding all political groups, work
ers and army men, and that in due
time it will be published the place
where the delegates will meet.
U.S. FLEET COMMANDER
FLIES TO GUANTANAMO
HAVANA —(UPI)— Adm. Jer
auld Wright, commander of the U.
‘S. Atlantic Fleet, flew to Guanta
namo today to check on the Cuban
rebel delay in releasing 30 kid
naped American sailors and Ma
rines.
The surprise visit by the top U.
S. Naval officer in Atlantic waters
to the Guantanamo base coincided
with strong indications the release
of the captive servicemen would
begin today.
Fidel Castro again broadcast
orders to his brother, Raul, who
masterminded the kidnaping raids,
to release all the hostages “imme
diately”. And Rear Adm. Robert
B. Ellis, Guantanamo base com
mander, said he expected the first
of the captive servicemen to be re
turned today.
Wright flew down to Guantana
mo aboard a Navy jet fighter
plane from his Norfolk, Va., head
quarters for on-the-spot confer
ences with the officials who are
negotiating for the release of the
captives.
The 30 Marines and sailors were
seized by the rebels two weeks
ago. Seventeen Americans and 3
Canadians have been freed.
The last two American hostages
were flown out of the hills to the
Guantanamo base Wednesday
night. They were James Best, 32,
of St. Matthews, Ky., and Albert
Ross, 51, of Houston, Tex. Both
were employed on a construction
project at Moa Bay.
Ellis said that U.S. Consuf Park
Wollan, who has been negotiating
with the rebels for the release of
the captives, had expected the re
lease of the servicemen to begin
Wednesday. However, Ellis said
there appeared to be some diffi
culty in rounding up the service
men in the hills. They had been
separated in small groups and dis
tributed among rebel bands scat
tered throughout the mountains.
years, is a feat of the first order.
Brazil is doing it. The dedication
of the striking new Presidential
Palace of Aurora, or Palace of the
Dawn, just about makes it certain
that Brasilia will really be the cap
ita) of Latin America’s giant in
1960, as President Kubitschek plan
ned.
“Brasilians may —and obviously
do— worry about the economics of
moving the capital and the haste
with which it is being done. Infla
tion, budgetary deficits, an ex
change crisis due to the fall in the
price of coffee, and on top of it a
crash program to build a capital
city on previously empty land in
the tabular frontier heartland of
the country —here is something to
get excited about.
“As a matter of fact, one should
start from the fact that this move
is highly desirable and has been
talked about ever since Brazil be
came independent in 1822. Even
the name of “Brasilia” was chosen
at that time.
“Rio de Janeiro is one ot the
greatest cities in the world and
one of the most beautiful, but it
is bursting at the seams and, like
New York, should be a great port
apd center of trade and industry,
not a capital.
“Brasilia is set in a fertile high
land . with a fine, temperature
climate. Already there is an air
field and a macadam road linking
the new city to Annapolis and
through Annapolis to the Atlantic
coast. Americans can be pleased
that their experts chose the site
and that the Export-Import Bank
provided $10,000,000 for a starter.
“The main credit, however, goes
to President Kubitschek and the
brilliant Brasilian architects, such
as Oscar Niemeyer, who are mak
ing a beautiful sew capital from
1 seratah.”