the passion for the development of natural resources, is a feeling of regret that a West European race, powerful its numbers and its skill . . . has not, to use the familiar phrase, got the thing in hand.'" That was how Lord Bryce appraised the Brazilians in 1912, and it is probably what he would say if he visited their country today. On the one hand, Brazil boasts the world's 10th largest economy and manufactures everything from computers and jet aircraft to tanks and rockets. On the other,...