Ciro de Freitas Vale

Ciro de Freitas Vale (born August 16, 1896 in São Paulo , † November 7, 1969 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian lawyer, diplomat and foreign minister .

Life

Cyro de Freitas Valle was the son of Antonieta Egídio de Sousa Aranha de Freitas Valle and Senator José de Freitas Valle and the nephew Oswaldo Aranhas .

Until 1916 he studied law at the University of São Paulo . From January to March 1939 he was Foreign Minister in the government of Getúlio Vargas . From May to June 1949 he was Foreign Minister in the government of Eurico Gaspar Dutra . From 1934 to 1936 he was envoy in The Hague . Until 1937 he temporarily represented Uncle Oswaldo Aranha as ambassador in Washington, DC From 1936 to 1937 he was envoy in La Paz . From February 7 to May 1, 1937 he was ambassador to Havana , from June 28, 1937 to December 10, 1938 in Bucharest .

From August 1939 to January 28, 1942 he represented his country as ambassador in Berlin . Diplomatic relations between the two dictatorships were very good. In June 1940, the German Reich yielded 40 tubes of 8.8cm FlaK 18/36/37 the Friedrich Krupp AG , 11,800 shot anti-aircraft ammunition of the caliber 56, 20 batteries 75 mm and 35 mm anti-aircraft guns and 28 heavy military vehicles via Genoa by Brazil.

Ciro de Freitas Vale openly showed his sympathy for the NSDAP . At the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin, the Assistance Committee for Catholic Non-Aryans applied for visas for emigration. For anti-Semitic reasons, De Freitas de Valle almost completely prevented the entry of the visa, although the Holy See had been promised a special entry quota for 3,000 Catholics.

From November 8, 1938, Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa and João Guimarães Rosa issued visas to those persecuted by the Nazi regime at the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg .

The Reich Foreign Ministry asked Ciro de Freitas Vale to send Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa back to Brazil as a persona non grata , as he had no understanding for Nazism . Freitas de Vale did not comply with this request. After Adolf Hitler in the Kroll Opera House and Benito Mussolini declared war on the government of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the balcony of Palazzo Venezia on the afternoon of December 11, 1941 , Freitas Vale applied for permission to burn the archive of the Berlin embassy. After breaking off diplomatic relations, from January 28 to May 23, 1942, he was interned with the other Brazilian diplomatic representatives in Baden-Baden . On August 21, 1942, the government of Getúlio Vargas declared war on the governments of the Axis powers .

From May to October 1942 he was charge d'affaires in Madrid . From April 2, 1944 to August 1, 1946, Ciro de Freitas Vale was ambassador to Ottawa, Canada . The University of Laval awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1945. In 1946, after Juan Perón was elected president, Perón's friend João Batista Luzardo was replaced by Chargé d'affaires Oswaldo Furst and replaced by Freitas Vale as ambassador to Argentina's capital Buenos Aires from 1947 to 1948 . He was a friend of Spruille Braden . From 1952 to 1955 he was ambassador to Santiago de Chile . From 1955 to 1960 he was ambassador to the UN headquarters .

Web links

• Biography: Vale, Ciro de Freitas. In: fgv.br. CPDOC - Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (Brazilian Portuguese). 

References and comments

1. ↑ Note: Spelling before modern spelling reforms
2. ↑ Ricardo Antônio Silva Seitenfus: A entrada do Brasil na Segunda Guerra Mundial . P. 200
3. ↑ Jeffrey Lesser: Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question . S. 155. Karl Kohut, Patrik von Zur Mühlen: Alternative Latin America . Colloquium Verlag, 1994, p. 98
4. ↑ Noaj . Asociación Internacional de Escritores Judíos en Lengua Hispana y Portuguesa, p. 112
5. ^ Stanley E. Hilton: Hitler's Secret War in South America, 1939-1945: German Military Espionage . P. 155
6. ↑ List complète des récipiendaires de 1864 à aujourd'hui. In: ulaval.ca. Université Laval, accessed August 20, 2019 . 
7. ↑ cpdoc.fgv.br

predecessor	Office	successor
Hildebrando Pompeu Pinto Accioly	Brazilian Ministre plénipotentiaire in Washington DC 1934 to 1937	Fernando Lobo
1829: Miguel Maria Lisboa 1924–1925: José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (diplomata) Octaviao Fialho	Brazilian Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in La Paz May 1, 1936 to January 22, 1937	Joâo Carvalho de Morea 1987: Vasco Mariz 1998–2001: José Viegas Filho
Edgar Bandeira Fraga de Castro	Brazilian ambassador in Havana February 7 to May 1, 1937	Edgar Bandeira Fraga de Castro
Labienno Salgado dos Santons	Brazilian Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Bucharest June 28, 1937 to December 10, 1938	Labienno Salgado dos Santons
Oswaldo Aranha	Brazilian Foreign Minister January to March 1939	Pedro Leão Veloso
José Joaquim de Lima e Silva Moniz de Aragão	Brazilian ambassador in Berlin August 1939 to January 28, 1942	Mário Calábria
Abelardo Roças	Brazilian Chargé d'Affaires in Madrid May to October 1942	Abelardo Roças
Jacome Baggi de Berenguer César	Brazilian Ambassador to Ottawa April 2, 1944 to August 1, 1946	João Emilio Ribeiro 1962–1966: Sérgio Correia da Costa

predecessor	Office	successor
Oswaldo Furst	Brazilian Ambassador to Buenos Aires April 17, 1947 to November 11, 1948	João Emílio Ribeiro
Raul Fernandes	Brazilian Foreign Minister May to June 1949	Raul Fernandes
Julio Augusto Barbosa Carneiro	Brazilian ambassador to Santiago de Chile from 1952 to 1955	Vilhena Ferreira Braga