After President Eisenhower announced the establishment of a National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs, Presilent Kubitschek sent to him the following message [as translated from the Portuguese text of the Embassy Bulletin]:

T

Hails Herter Appointment

"I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the establishment of a National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs, which has the opportune aim of examining current and future problems arising in the relations between the United States and Latin America. The fact that Your Excellency has named your Secretary of State as chairman and has selected other distinguished persons to complete the Committee is evidence of your purpose to carry out a wise and constructive policy as regards peace and better understanding in our hemisphere.

Operation Pan American

Brasília will be officially opened on April 21 of this year. Construc"Following our exchange of tion is proceeding on an around-the-clock basis. The photo above letters in 1958 and in line with shows the framework of congressional structures being rushed for pronouncements of Latin Ameri- completion by the opening date.

can statesmen, there was launched

a movement of continental soli- Twenty-three Man Brazil Delegation Completes Trade Mission to Russia

darity which was given the name Operation Pan American. The concept

was unanimously ap

proved by the Twenty-one Repub- Ambass. Edmundo Barbosa ment with Russia during the lics, and there have already been da Silva Heads Diplomats early part of December. The Brathree Inter-American conferences Negotiating Exchange zilian Embassy in Washington in which concrete though still inA twenty-three man delegation published the following account sufficient measures have been brought to Moscow by the first in its Boletim, presented here in agreed to. Operation Pan Ameri- Brazilian airliner ever to land translation:

Also Growing

Demography Experts Believe São Paulo Will Now Spurt

Well Ahead of Rio

The Department of Statistics of the State of São Paulo has made a new estimate of the population of the city of São Paulo. The largest city of Brazil now has 3,543,000 inhabitants within the city limits.

Million More Since '55

For so many years "the fastest growing city of Brazil," São Paulo, in 1955 had a population of 2,500,000. Its rate of growth is now decisive over that of Rio de Janeiro, until quite recently the largest city of the Nation. Rio's population at the present time is about 3,000,000 people.

Demographic experts also point out that the possibilities of increased growth also favor the Paulista capital. The area from. São Paulo to Santos, which serves as the port of the capital, is likewise increasing its population. Splendid Highway

To the north and west the same may be said of Jundiaí, Campinas and Piracicaba, all thriving industrial towns quite close to São Paulo and near enough for a quick run along the splendid Federal Highway, Br-33, the Via

Anhanguera. The dairy farms just

outside São Paulo in this area are

in some instances being divided

into city lots and the cattle shipped to the far western State

of Mato Grosso.

Austerity Period

Is Now Evident

Treasury Delegation Figures Indicate Brazil's Imports In Substantial Decline

Those who have been following the data representing Brazilian imports from the United States supplied as available to the Brazilian Bulletin by the Brazilian Treasury Delegation in New York have, of course, noticed a substantial decline in the figures within the last year.

Confirmed by Observation An expert on foreign business confirms this as a result of his personal observations. He is George L. Holt, executive vice president of Moore-McCormack Lines, who has just returned from an extended visit to company offices in Brazil and Argentina. He said that both countries were going through an "austerity" period and that, consequently, trading between them and the United States was at a relatively low state.

The potential for trade is "tremendous," however, and in a few years these countries will have enough dollars to buy heavily in this country, he added. Moore-McCormack ships on the route to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires are carrying light southbound cargoes as a result of "belt tightening" in the Latin countries, Mr. Holt said. His company operates from both the east and west coasts of the United States.

Brasília to Aid Trade

He predicted that the establishment of Brazil's new capital,

the uplands 900 miles from Rio de Janeiro, would give the country a "tremendous lift" and open up the inner area of the nation to extensive development.

Moore-McCormack also operate the two luxury liners, the S. S. Brasil and the S.S. Argentina, which make regular calls at the Brazilian ports of Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. This year their carnival cruises to Rio leave New York on February 5 and 19.

Brazil and Russia

In Trade Accord

The 2 Nations Have Agreed

On a Three-Year Exchange of Coffee for Petroleum (From Page 1)

Two-Week Session

The negotiations of the Brazilian trade mission to Russia took place over a period of two weeks.

The Brazil-Soviet accord centers around the furnishing by Brazil to Russia in 1960 of : shipment of 350,000 bags of cof fee, to be followed by two othe shipments, respectively of 400,00 and 640,000 bags of coffee in 196 and 1962. Russia will provič Brazil with a first shipment o approximately 400,000 tons of oi immediately followed by two an nual shipments larger than th first.

Other Commodities

In addition to coffee and oil, th products to be exchanged ove

an

a three-year period will be, O the part of Brazil: cocoa vegetable fibers; and on the par of the Soviet Union; wheat an industrial equipment. Dolla value of the Soviet-Brazilian ex changes foreseen in the terms c the accord is as follows: for 1960 US$25,000,000; for 1961, US$37 000,000; and for 1962, US$50. 000,000. The grand total US$112,000,000.

"We came to discuss busines and we had no other mission,' Ambassador Edmundo Barbosa da Silva declared in replying ti questions if an eventual reestabl lishment of diplomatic relation between Rio de Janeiro and Mos COW had been tackled in th course of the negotiations.

Explains Obligations

The chief of the Brazilian dele gation declared that his confer ence with Mr. Anastas Mikoyan which had lasted for three hours

Thanks Those Who Aided The chief of all Brazilian trade to thank bureaus has written (See Page 3)

gage in a wide exchange of point of view on economic and commer cial questions concerning the tw countries. Ambassador Barbos (See Page 3) 1