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Show Argentina And Brazil In Hostile State The outbreak of hostilities between be-tween Argentina" and Brazil, for years rivals in South America, is considered possible by close observers ob-servers of events in the two countries coun-tries where dictators sontinue to control the two nations. Some Latin-American diplomats believe that the nations might go to the war in the effort of one, or both, of the dictators to consolidate consol-idate a shaky political structure at home. Popular pressure is said to be worrying both and wars have occurred under such circumstances circum-stances before. In Argentine it is reported that there is considerable propaganda attempting to make the people believe be-lieve that Brazil has designs on the rich Misiones area. In Brazil, there is concern over the utterances utter-ances of Colonel J?ron, War Min-istr Min-istr of Argentina, who frankly tells his people to prepare for war and recently ordered all Argentines Argen-tines of both sexes, from twelve to fifty, to prepare for defense. The situation seems to be more serious than the average American Ameri-can realizes. Richard Adams, a newspaper man who ' has recently visited both capitals, says that recently re-cently following a Peron saber-rattling saber-rattling speech, the Brazilians ordered or-dered 250 planes and 250 medium tanks to the Argentine bordr. If this report is correct, there seems to be danger of a full-size conflict. |