BRAZIL
1955
Reports
of Affiliates and Committees of The World Calendar Association,
International, presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting
16 January 1956, reflect the world-wide interest
in and need for calendar reform. Published highlights (JCR
Vol. 25, Dec. 1955 - Jan. 1956) for BRAZIL:
The
Affiliate has been without a chairman since the death of Rear
Admiral Radler de Aquino in 1953. However, Mr. H. Saville
Dodd of San Paulo, who has been an advocate of The World Calendar
for some years, has recently expressed an interest in forming
a new committee and becoming its chairman.
BRAZIL
1953
SUSTAINED
progress toward the international enactment of calendar reform
was reported at the Seventh Annual Meeting 15 January
1954 of The World Calendar
Association, International, held in the International Building,
New York City. Published highlights (JCR Vol. 24, April
1954) for BRAZIL:
The
cause of calendar reform has lost on of its most distinguished
advocates in the death of the Brazilian Chairman, Admiral
Radler de Aquino. A reorganization of the committee is expected
early in 1954. In the meantime, there has been no change in
the government's position, which is entirely sympathetic with
calendar revision on an international plane. In fact, Brazil
was the first country in the New World to advocate calendar
reform, having been drawn into the subject by the French philosopher
Auguste Comte more than a century ago. At the League of Nations
International conference in 1931 Brazil unequivocally approved
The World Calendar; a stand which has been consistently maintained
ever since. During the past twenty years, world leadership
in the movement has been carried largely on the shoulders
of the Latin-American countries, which will all rejoice to
find at the forthcoming meetings of the U.N. that their enthusiasm
has now been reinforced by the strong attitude of the government
of India.
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Earlier involvement by Brazil is documented in
Journals of Calendar Reform but not yet posted here.
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