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Show BRAZIL PUBLISHES NEW GREEN BOOK RIO JANEIRO, March 12. The Brazilian Bra-zilian government has published a green book containing diplomatic correspondence cor-respondence regarding tho affairs of Brazil in 1915-1917. Among tho documents are a number ' of messages of congratulation received from North and South American gov- : ernmonts and the Allies many rolatlng I tho rupture of diplomatic relations with Germany- and others regarding - . the proclamation of a state of war. Instructions sent to tho Brazilian ; K ambassador In Buenos Aires declare X that it was not to establish the pollti- ; cal unity and solidarity of tho AmerN ; ,., can nations. North and South America, : It was declared, had bocomo tho abid- ! ''. lag place of principles and ideals con sUtuting the heritage of tho moral civ- ?, n't Ilization of tho Old World which woro al threatened with extinction by Gcr- many. " t T - The green btfok also contains tho ' texts of communications botween Great Britain and Brazil and between uiA Brazil and France. - 00 ; 51 A nation-wide weighing and measur- ing of babies and children of pre- ? ' school age will begin April C to bo fol- . fg lowed by an educational campaign ivhlch It la hoped will diminish at least i onethlrd the annual total of 500,00 f provon table deaths of children uad k j Mg 5 years. j flr rwv 1 ' . |