Evening star., 1941-11-09
u. :, Influence Grows
In Brazil, Lecturer
AtC. u. Declares
DR.. Cordozo Sees Signs
Of Better Understanding
On Recent Visit
rican influence in Brazil is


growing daily, according to DR..
Manuoel S. Cardozo. lecturer in Por-
tuguese and Brazilian history Of the
Catholic University who has just
returned from the southern republic,
where he spent four months in re-
history and establishing contacts for
the universitys Lima Library, of
which he is in charge.
"A few years ago" said DR.. Car
dozo, Brazilian bookstores were
filled with volumes in the French
language, whereas today these pub
lications are being displaced by
books published in the United
States. The younger generation is
learning English, and many young
people already have a good COM
mand of our language The ex-
change of students. which is being
actively encouraged, also will result
in healthy increase of American
influence. The Institute Brasil-Es-
tados Unidos of Rio de Janiero is
now actively engaged in this work.
Brazilians now look with great salts
faction upon the expansion of the
study of Portuguese in the United
States and feel that this is a step
in the right direction"
Brazil Developing Quickly.
DR.. Cardozo said the industrial
development of Brazil is proceeding
at quickened pace, adding that the
construction of steel mills in the
State of Rio, partly with American
capital, will solve one of the nations
most pressing economic problems.
Brazil is now going through an
intensive period of nationalism," DR..
Cardozo said. mo foreign language
newspapers are now permitted to be
printed. Foreign schools also have
been closed. or at least forced to
modify their curricula in such a
way that the Brazilian requirements
are met. The only apparent excep-
tion to this policy seems to be the
schools which Americans working in
Brazil maintain for their children.
American school administrators as
Sured me that they were receiving
the fullest cooperation of Brazilian
authorities. Nearly all the Amer
lean children speak Portuguese as
well as English"
Partlclpa ting in the fourth annual
reunion of the Alumni Association
OF the Catholic University. which
closes IN New York City tonight. are
numerous members of the faculty of
the university and upward of $50
graduates who are affiliated with the
Washington chapter of the organi-
"a ton.
The faculty members are headed
by the Most Rev Joseph M. Corri-
gan, rector of the university, who
Will be the celebrant at the memorial
mass this morning in ST. Patrick S
Cathedral for deceased members of
the association and their families.
| Bishop Corrigan will also be the
speaker on The Church of the Air"
program on a Nation wide hookup
of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn, to be heard in Washington over
station WJSV at l pm. today.
Others in Attendance.
Other members of the university
attending the reunion include the
Right Rev. Msgr. P. J. Mccormick.
vice rector of the university: the
Rev. DR.. James A. Magner. procura-
tor; the Very Rev. Ignatius Smith,
o. P, dean of the school of philoso-
ply. who is among the banquet
speakers tonight; the Rev. Joseph c.
F'enton. the Rev. DR.. William Lallou
and the Rev. Clement V. Bastnagel
OF the school of sacred theology; the
Rev. Thomas E. Mitchell, dean of
the school of social work; the Very
Rev. Hubert L. Motry. dean of the
school of canon law: DR.. Frederick
V. Murphy, DR.. Timothy c. May and
Louis H. Cook Of the faculty of the
school OF engineering and architec-
ture; the Rev Robert j. White, with
James A. Condrick and Vincent l..
Toomey of the faculty Of the uni
versity's school of law. and Edmund
La Fond and Dorsey Griffith of the
athletic department.
Two Washingtonians were elected
to national Office. S. Dolan Donohoe
of the class of 1916, as vice president
of the lay alumni, and Miss Vivian
Barr OF the class of 1884, as vice
| president of the alrlmnae.
The annual election of officers of
the university's Law School Alumni
Association is scheduled to be held
late today, following a panel dis
cussion on THE Alumnus and the
Law School in This Time of Emer-
gency." John P. Moore and Richard
w. Galiher, Washington attorneys,
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