Evening star., 1949-05-15

monarch was the royal guest oi
President Grant at the opening oi
the Philadelphia Centennial ir
that year. Afterward the EN-.
peror travelled clear across the
United States to San Francisco
and from Chicago to the Gulf of
Mexico. He visited West Point
and Annapolis. He went UP to
Boston to meet Longfellow, Lowell
and Whittier. and then down to
Rhode Island to talk with Ban
croft, the historian.
Unlike his royal predecessor
President Dutra will spend time
only in Washington, New York
and Nashville, Tenn. The visiting
Brazilian ruler will be accom-
panied by his distinguished For
eign Minister. DR.. Raul Fernandes,
and a number of other high Of
ficials of his administration.
Worked With Wilson
The fact that the Foreign Min
lister is accompanying the Presi-
dent is interpreted to mean that
important international problems
may be discussed. DR.. Fernandes
is not only his country's most emf
nent international jurist, associate
of the late President Wilson in the
founding of the League of Nations
and more recently the masterful
president of the historic Rio Con-
ference that drew up the inter-
American defense treaty. but he
has recently spent considerable
time in Europe
DR.. Fernandes worked closely
with our representatives. in the
Paris session of the United Ma
tions General Assembly last sum-
mer. and afterward visited Spain,
Portugal and other countries
whose present or future place in
the Western European political
picture is now a subject Of dis
chssion both in the councils of
the United Nations and in the
foreign Offices of the great West
ern powers. There are indica-
tions that the views as we'll as the
advice of the Brazilian Minister
of Foreign Affairs may be sought
in arriving at satisfactory sclu-
ton of the ticklish Spanish cues
ton along with vital hemisphere
problems.
President Dutra and his en-
tourage will arrive at the National
Airport in Washington on We'd
nesday afternoon. May 18. at four
o'clock, where he will be greeted
by the President of the United
States with members of the cabi-
net, and rendered full military
honors. After a busy three days
in the capital and three days in
New York, the Dutra party will
fly to Tennessee where the Presi-
dent will inspect the Tennessee
Valley Authority. visit the Insti-
tute for Brazilian Studies at VAN
derbilt University in Nashville
and spend the night of May 26
with his old friend. Gen. Claude
Adams. at the latter's home in
Humboldt. Tenn. Gen. Adams
was our military attache in Rio
for a number of years during the
war and was intimately associated
with Gen. Dutra in the nego:ia-
ton of important military and
other agreements.
Political Exception
Gen. Dutra Is a rare exception
among Brazilian or. for that mat
ter. South American political
leaders. In that he is one of the
few professional soldiers who has
headed the government Of his
country in several generations.
Even Dictator Vargas was a ci-
william and not a military man. He
is also one of the few presidents
who was not born In a large city
or anywhere near the populous
east coast. He comes from the
small town of Cuiaba. one of the
most remote communities in the
far interior of the State Of Mato
Crosse, the heart Of the Brazilian
hinterland.
In fact. as one Brazilian journal
ist points out, He and President
Truman have much in common.
They both come from the west.
Each was born in a small town.
Each maintains a strong connec-
ton with what some of your writ
ers have been pleased to call the
plain people farmers. small-town
merchants and laboring men"
The two Presidents also have
other traits in common. Each has
the unvarying custom of getting
up very early In the morning. Mr..
Truman's habit of taking long
walks about Washington. long be-
fore the population begins to stir.
is well known. But President
Dutra usually arises at 4:30 and
never later than 5. During his
days in the army he was up even
earlier and held staff meetings in
the War Department at $50
and 8.
Since he became President "he
is a little more leisurely." one Of
his aides told me In Rio last JAN
uary. He doesn't call In cabinet
members until $50 or T." In