One day last week a dark, ebullient man got off a train in Washington. Bubbling with energy and high spirits, he snapped his fingers at the rain coming down in sheets. Above his tan button shoes he wore a raincoat lined with rabbit fur. But His Excellency Oswaldo Aranha, new Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S., looked about at the sodden streets and buildings and exclaimed, "Maravilhoso!"
When a coup d'état hoisted dumpy Getulio Vargas to Brazil's presidency in 1930, no one had a longer and stronger finger in the proceedings than Senhor...
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