{"record":{"aliases":[],"appointmentIds":["brazil-3d99e426f2e514"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/octavio-do-nascimento-brito-571af6c93d/","countrySlug":"brazil","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/octavio-do-nascimento-brito-571af6c93d/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Octávio do Nascimento Brito combined diplomatic service with work on international law and government publications. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1888, he qualified in law in 1909 and belonged to the Brazilian Society of International Law. He edited the Foreign Ministry’s bulletin from 1919 to 1929, then became a second secretary and served briefly in Asunción before returning to the ministry.","Brito worked on inter-American legal conferences and codification. He was secretary to the 1927 International Commission of Jurists, served with Brazil’s delegation at the 1928 Havana conference, and later worked on a commission drafting an international convention on literary and artistic rights. Promoted to first secretary in 1938, he went to Porto in 1939.","At the 1945 San Francisco conference, Brito defended the aim of a universal United Nations during discussion of the General Assembly’s composition. He explained that Brazil’s suggestion was an aspiration for the new organization, while acknowledging that worldwide membership was impracticable as war continued. Australian and Belgian representatives supported the principle; Brito did not press for a decision in a committee whose remit excluded that question.","His Washington service included periods as acting head of the embassy before Maurício Nabuco’s arrival. He also discussed arms and Argentina with U.S. officials in a conversation reported to Ambassador William Pawley in December 1946. Pawley asked whether Brazil’s government had instructed him to raise the subject."],"id":"brazil:octavio do nascimento brito","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-571af6c93de3845f8f2f.html","name":"Octávio do Nascimento Brito","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["brito-yearbook1941"],["brito-yearbook1941"],["brito-un1945-report"],["brito-washington-roster1953","brito-frus1946"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-571af6c93de3845f8f2f.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"limited","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"95ab0ba3c1993793","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1941","id":"brito-yearbook1941","locator":"Printed pp. 179–180; PDF pp. 172–173","publisher":"Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / FUNAG","title":"Octávio do Nascimento Brito: service record","type":"primary-record","url":"https://www.funag.gov.br/chdd/images/Anuario_Funcionarios_MRE/Anuario1941B.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1953","id":"brito-washington-roster1953","locator":"Washington roster preceding career records","publisher":"Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / FUNAG","title":"Washington succession list","type":"primary-record","url":"https://www.funag.gov.br/chdd/images/Anuario_Funcionarios_MRE/Anuario1953.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"2015","id":"brito-un1945-report","locator":"O Brasil e as Nações Unidas: 70 anos, reproduced 1945 delegation report, printed/PDF pp. 101–104, especially p. 103","publisher":"Brazilian Foreign Ministry / Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão","title":"Relatório da delegação do Brasil à Conferência das Nações Unidas para a Organização Internacional","type":"primary-record","url":"https://funag.gov.br/loja/download/1129-O_Brasil_e_as_Nacoes_Unidas_70_Anos.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1946-12-16","id":"brito-frus1946","locator":"FRUS 1946, volume XI, document 413; full letter and footnotes","publisher":"U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian","title":"Pawley to Braddock, 16 December 1946","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1946v11/d413"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 26 October 2026","id":"mission-759fca5789687b8b2893","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"Historical representation: Empire of Brazil","type":"Mission record","url":"https://funag.gov.br/loja/download/legacoes_embaixadas.pdf"}],"topics":["international law","copyright","diplomatic publications","United Nations founding conference"]},"schemaVersion":1}