For the peripatetic hammer-&-sickle set in South America, it was bag-packing time.
The Brazilian Government brusquely broke off diplomatic relations with Moscow. Foreign Minister Raul Fernandez had hauled in the welcome mat and handed passports to the Soviet Embassy staff. Ambassador Jacob Surits was saved the indignity; he had already hiked off to Moscow.
Chile, which first raised the anti-Red cry last fortnight by packing two conniving Yugoslav diplomats out of the country, was reported to be ready to follow
Brazil's lead. Argentina, third member of South America's ABC, was still to be...
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