BRAZIL: Sky Outsider

Monday, Oct. 21, 1935

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 for cash.

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