Evening star., 1939-07-09
Gen. Goes Monteiro,
Host 10 u. ). Officials,
Halls Americas Unity
Talk at Dinner Calls
Spirit Safeguard
Of Security

His unprecedented friendship tour
Of the United States nearing its
close, Gen. Pedro Aurelio de Goes
Monteiro, chief of staff of the Bra
lillian Army, last night hailed unity
among the countries of the Western
3 Hemisphere as their best and per-
haps the only guarantee" of security
in the world today.
. Gen. Goes Monteiro spoke at
dinner he gave at the Shoreham
Hotel honoring Gen. George G.
Marshall. acting chief of staff, and
other military and civilian officials
who assisted in preparing for his
reception in this country and an
aerial tour across the United States.
a It is a spirit of tolerance and
unity, Gen. Goes Monteiro declared,
which is the best safeguard of that
/. "our countries will succeed in ira
versing unharmed and serene the
, trials and crises of all kinds, politi-
= cal, economic and social, which
o threatens to lay waste to the whole
. world"
= He hailed the spirit of Pan
= Americanism which has evolved
. from the academic phase to
" overflow into the national conscience
q of all the peoples of America
9 Gen Marshall, who recently Wis
q ited Brazil, sat on Gen. Goes Mon
!. teiros right during the dinner
s Across the table sat the Brazilian
: Ambassador. Carlos Martins, and on
. bis right was Maj. Gen. Henry H.
= Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps.
. Praises L. S. Army.
a With the charm and graClouSneSS
OF his Latin nature. Gen. Goes Mon
teiro praised Gen. Marshall as the
. fitting exponent of the glorious in
stitution which is the Army OF the
United States-an army undefeated
and truly a paragon in its tradition
of patriotism, its equilibrium of
q movements, as we'll as in the quail
, ity of its equipment and the re-
markable physical and moral stand
a ard of its personnel
He said the United States Army
appears as one of the outstanding
8 reallzationS Of the great and rich
nation and of the political and
! human ideals to whose protection
and defense it is intended and de-
voted"
Reviewing Brazil'S friendship for
the United States, he said Thomas
Jefferson pledged sympathy of the
Nation and of the political and
American people to the young Bra
, 1ilian revolutionist, Jose Joaquin Da
Maia 36 years before Brazil won her
independence.
During the period of economic
expansion in this country, when
other South American nations
doubted the sincerity of the friend
ship Of the United States, Brazil
s. remained in its friendship, Gen.
Goes Monteiro declared.
He said Brazils friendship for the
United States, spontaneously
formed by motives of tacit affni-
ties. acquired a singularly oppor-
tune significance, productive of
great and mutual advantages
l&duuS 4. '. f1tIhCNCu1ChtS.
Unfortunately, he added, mot
all nations have reached the high
social standards necessary for full
adjustment to the philadelphian
principles. . :"
There is no doubt. however. that
the political achievements of the
United States are outstanding
among the most dignifying deeds in
the evolution of mankind toward
progress and culture, and that they
will continue to represent an ideal
aim, especially for the republics of
this continent"
He said his remarks were the re-
suit of what he had seen during the
happy days in the land of a people
that in the history of humanity has
known how to build an everlasting
structure. tracing over the world the
bright trajectory Of peerless
destiny"
He ended with toast, in the
name Of the Brazilian Army, to the
perennial happiness of President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to the
prosperity of his Government and
that of the great people of the
United States of America
After the dinner Gen. Goes
Monteiro said change in his pro-
gram would prevent him from flying
to Rio De Janeiro as he had in
tended. There was possibility he
might return here after visiting New
York and West Point and then go to
Chicago, he said, adding that his
health would prevent the proposed
flight to the Brazilian capital.