Moacyr Ribeiro Briggs

Moacyr Ribeiro Briggs (born July 10, 1900 in Niterói , † April 9, 1968 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian diplomat .

Life

Moacyr Ribeiro Briggs was the son of Francisca Eduarda Ribeiro and Arthur Eduardo Raoux Briggs and married Zenilda Novaes. He studied at the Universidade Federal Fluminense and was a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . In 1918 he joined the Itamaraty's foreign service. From 1938 to 1941 he was deputy head of the administration department in Itamaraty. From 1942 he headed the Divisão de Organização e Coordenação of the Departamento Administrativo do Serviço Público (DASP), the public relations work of the President. On August 18, 1942, a report by Ribeiro Briggs on a commission of inquiry (Ernani Reis and Vasco Leitão da Cunha) on the practice of issuing visas was handed over to Getúlio Vargas by Luís Martins de Souza Dantas . On August 21, 1942, Vargas declared war on the Axis powers.

Moacyr Ribeiro Briggs later headed the DASP :

• From November 6, 1945 to December 12, 1945 for José Linhares .
• From February 24, 1961 to August 25, 1961 for Jânio Quadros .
• From August 25, 1961 to September 8, 1961 for João Goulart .

From September 17, 1952 to August 1, 1953 he was ambassador to Karachi . From November 18, 1953 to September 24, 1955 he was ambassador to Asunción . From March 2, 1959 to 1960, he was ambassador to the Holy See . Until his death he was the head of the Instituto de Organização Racional do Trabalho in the state of Guanabara and was replaced in this position by Engo Alím Pedro, managing director of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

Publications

• O serviço público federal no decênio Getúlio Vargas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fábio Koifman, Quixote nas trevas: o embaixador Souza Dantas e os refugiados do nazismo, Editora Record, 2002 - 540 pages, p. 335
2. ↑ Departamento Administrativo do Serviço Público (DASP) ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
	Brazilian Ambassador to Karachi September 17, 1952 to August 1, 1953	José Leal Ferreira Júnior
Wagner Pimente Bueno	Brazilian ambassador in Asunción November 18, 1953 to September 24, 1955	João Desiderati Monetti
Heitor Lyra	Brazilian Ambassador to the Holy See March 2, 1959 to 1960	Henrique de Souza Gomes