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Died. Oswaldo Euclydes de Souza Aranha, 65, Brazilian rancher and statesman who gained enough experience from revolutionary clashes of the 1920s to captain the forces that installed Strongman Getulio Vargas as Brazil's President, went on to be Vargas' Ambassador to Washington (1934-38) and Foreign Minister 1938-44), established close relations with the U.S. (though in later years he became disillusioned by U.S. hard-money policies), persuaded other Latin American countries to sever diplomatic relations with the Axis, brought Brazil into the war on the side of the U.S. over the reluctance of his chief and even...
Once, during an 80-day rebellion in 1925, a young gaucho leader named Oswaldo Aranha saved the town of Itaqui for the government by fighting off a rebel leader named Luis Carlos Prestes. Aranha spent the next year recuperating from a bullet-shattered leg, then went on to become a President-maker, a Cabinet minister for 12 years; he spent four distinguished years in Washington as Ambassador to the U.S., served once as U.N. General Assembly president. Rebel Prestes went on to become chief of Brazil's Communist Party, the hemisphere's biggest. Last week, while thousands watched...
...proud, burly, white-thatched Oswaldo Aranha presumably has one last chance at his lifelong ambition: to sit in Catete Palace, Brazil's White House. If he does not make it in the October 1960 presidential election he will be too old afterward. Last week, in his frantic bid, Aranha seemed ready to toss away a lifetime record of liberalism, internationalism, Western Hemisphere solidarity...
...Aranha probably has fewer enemies than any Brazilian in public life; virtually all politicos and parties like him; he has urbanity, intelligence, and political skill. But he has no political machine, and experts give him virtually no chance. Last week Aranha perhaps summed up his whole dilemma in one wistful phrase: "I am tired of second place...
...bank credit and tax reform. The two preceding Finance Ministers also drew up disinflationary programs, but inflation kept right on. What makes Gudin's prospects sounder is that President Café Filho is backing him up. Getulio Vargas failed to back up his men, Horacio Lafer and Oswaldo Aranha. While Lafer was tightening credit, the Bank of Brazil was loosening it; while Aranha was trying to curb prices, Vargas decreed a 100% increase in minimum wages...