BRAZIL IN THE GREAT WAR“Paris, april the 7th, 1917.“[To] Wenceslau Brazil — President of the Republi

BRAZIL IN THE GREAT WAR“Paris, april the 7th, 1917.“[To] Wenceslau Brazil — President of the Republic — Rio de Janeiro. The diplomats who met in Paris to study the situation of the coward murder of brazilian citizens and the sinking of the “Paraná” [brazilian steamer sunk by a german u-boat on april the 5th, 1917], consider this as an act of war from Germany. We trust the energy, the resolve and the patriotism of the President of the Republic of the United States of Brazil to avenge the great crime against the National Flag by declaring War on Germany, which not only acted against the law but against humanity”- Irineu Machado (displayed on the picture), Senator of Brazil [which lived in Paris by the time]. Machado was one of the greatest war agitators of Brazil, he insisted firmly on the entrance of the country in the Conflict. Brazil officially joined The War on 26 of october 1917. The country sent medical support to the frontlines as well as naval support in the atlantic. Source: Revista América Latina (Latin America Magazine), may, 1917.  -- source link

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