The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-08-24
BRAZIL MAKING PLANS
FOR ALBRT'S VISIT
Determined to Beat
u. S. in Entertaining Bel
gian King and Queen
(By United PreSs)

anyone, who was in America last fall
when the nation welcomed King AL
bert and Queen Elizabeth of the Bel
gians, the preparations being made
by Brazil to Guido her sister republic
in a reception to these same royalties
next fall might be breath taking.
While no iron-clad program has yet
been arranged, about the only ques-
ton still to be answered is whether
or not the royal couple can stand the
strain.
/ The Belgian rulers are not expect
Jed to arrive here until September but
already scarcely a day goes by with
out some new preparation for their
visit being announced under glazing
headlines in the press.
The Latin love Of pOmp and display
is figuring largely in the plans. The
army and navy is being worked over
time in an effort to whip them into
shape to pass the review of the SOL
dier-king, and officers and men alike,
ordinarily snappy enough for any
army are fairly on their toes two
months in advance of the advent Of
the monarchs.
A comparison between the: propos-
ed Brazilian reception Of the King
and Queen and that accorded them
in the United States is nothing If not
startling. It is like comparing q
prayer to a grand hurrah.
Few persons in America, who FORM
ed the hundreds of thousands who
saw King Albert and Queen Elizabeth
last fall, will ever forget the admir-
ing crowds that gazed in all but sill
'ence at the Belgian royalties as they
drove unostensatiously about from
place to place. Here and there was
a cheer, but for the most part the
crowds were typically undemonstra-
tive.
Brazil knows how to make carnival
and Rio has seen many gay nights
and days. But it is doubtful If any
testivity gone before will ever again
be able to bat in the same league
with this reception for the Belgian
rulers. Not If the committee on ar
rangements, headed by the minister
of foreign affairs, can help it.
Following the arrival of their Maj
estes, they will be Immediately driven
to the Cattete Palace to meet the pre-
sident. Then the program will be
started in earnest. 1t will consist Of
a series of events, which bids fair to
consume every minute Of this time the
King and Queen spend in Brazil.
There will be a military parade for
a start-off; then will>follow hall at
the foreign office at 1tamarty Palace,
after which the royal party will at
tend Solemn session" of the Acad-
envy Of Associated Sciences in the Ma
tional Library.
A partial list from there on in
cludes visit to the Academy of Fine
Arts, a garden party at Cattete Pal
are. a Venetian fete, sports fete in
Guiding an athletics parade and two
football games between the four lead
ing teams in the Metropolitan league
grand concert at the Municipal
Opera House, and so on. There events
will be interspersed with innumer-
able visits to the interior and to the
mountains surrounding Rio de Jane
fro and the bay.
In between the festivities, If there
Is any in between, Brazil is expected
to be in very respective mood for
suggestions regarding financial aid
for Belgium. There have been a num-
Der. of "feelers" from Brussels regard
ing an international loan and this has
not dampened the ardor of the gov
eminent or of the public for the re-
ception of the King and Queen. The
feeling grows that Brazil is not at al
averse to q few "entangling allan
ces' in Throne 90 long as thew ara
merely financial. And the visit of q
King and Queen is worth any amount.