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Show Brazil's Anniversary. The recent celebration of the anni versary of Brazilian independence brings to mind several interesting facts concerning this growing nation. Brazil, with the exception of Cuba, is the youngest of the Latin-American republics. Unlike Cuba, however, Brazil enjoyed independence long before be-fore the change of government came. Again, most unlike its sister republics of Spanish America, Brazil effected the radical change without bloodshed. Dora Fedro was a wise, as well as a lovable, monarch ; when he saw that the majority opinion favored a republican repub-lican form of administration, he graciously' gra-ciously' abdicated and retired from public life. If only certain European monarchs had possessed similar foresight fore-sight and common sense but a few years ago ! |