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still largely agriculture and small industry. Brazil has really great industry. It's a huge country, you know.

Interviewer:

No Asiatic representation?

Perkins:

Oh, no. They haven't any industry. This is the governing body. Other countries have representation in the assembly, in the body itself. When they meet as delegates, they're all there.

For instance, when we had cotton textile committees operating, the Indians were always very prominent in that, because they have had a great share in the development of the cotton textile industry.





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