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Show BRAZIL AGITATED OVER NEUTRALITY RIO TT, JAN'EIKO. Pec. 18. Tr. T.anro Muller, the foreign minister of Brazil, who has been absent In the 1'nlted State? for the past four months, has returned to this city, and with him came the vexed question of neutrality and that of the attitude Brazil should assume in the present pres-ent European etrus-e. For some time past the Braailian public has been agitated agi-tated over the utterances of Senator Ruy Karbosa, the eminent Brazilian jurist and statesman, who has repeatedly counseled the Brazilian peep:-? to espouse the cause of the allies In a warm nnd open manner. Pr. Muller, In his reply to the official speech of welcome made at the great re-ption re-ption tendered him by the peop'e of Rio. advised an adherence t" the strictest neutrality, and told his large audience that t he salvation of Brazil rested In th--1 c nercy. eon race and Initiative which Brazilians misht have In the fight to restore re-store the damages caused by the shock of the great war. |