Shy last week of joining the League of Nations in applying sanctions against Italy was the United States of Brazil, biggest Latin State in South America, for two reasons: 1) Brazil still resents the League's refusal to give it a permanent seat on the League Council which caused Brazil to quit the League in 1926; 2) Brazil's biggest immigrant group consists of about 550,000 Italians.
Last week the Brazilian Assembly passed (150-45) a resolution condemning the Italo-Ethiopian War for the record, while Brazilian businessmen offered meat and coffee to Italy in exchange...
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