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...last time Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 64, saw the U.S., he was an obscure brigadier general, attached to the Brazilian embassy in Washington. This week, ten years later, he returns as the tough, seasoned boss of the Brazilian armed forces, and democracy's strong right arm in Brazil. As he goes off for three weeks of sightseeing, mostly military, from Cape Canaveral to West Point to Fort Ord in California, the U.S. will get acquainted with the man who will play a key role-either as candidate or moderator-in Brazil's presidential election next year...
...Minister and Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, only other visible candidate. This week, with typical political canniness, Quadros planned to board a freighter to Japan (54 days around the Cape of Good Hope) on a trip that will keep him away for three months-enough to avoid excessive pre-election exposure, enough to guarantee him a triumphal welcome when he returns...
...other ambassadors presented themselves last week to Argentina's no-longer-isolated Government. Britain's Sir Reginald Leeper docked in the fog to report "great interest [in Britain] in the Argentine market." When Brazil's João Baptista Luzardo arrived at B.A.'s Lacroze railway station, he was met and embraced by Perón himself and cheered by thousands of descamisados (shirtless ones) specially summoned by the Strong Man to make a fraternal greeting to "the representative of Brazil's marmiteiros [dinner-pail carriers]." Luzardo responded by grabbing and kissing Argentine and Brazilian...
Last week death came to the best loved man in Brazil: Pedro Ernesto Baptista. Years ago, when Getulio Vargas began his revolution, Pedro Ernesto, a surgeon, used his own hospital's ambulance to run machine guns to the Vargas contingents massing at Minas Geraes. When Vargas became President, Pedro Ernesto became prefect of the Federal District (Brazilian equivalent of mayor of the District of Columbia). This was a job which gave Pedro Ernesto the chance he had wanted: he labored to improve conditions in Rio's slums; he built schools, free clinics, city hospitals...
...fact that approximately 119 officers in the Cuban Army were shot or blown into small pieces by Baptista's rank-and-file Monday has certainly strengthened the case of those who have sounded the usual cry: "Let's intervene to establish law and order." Advocates of this course cite the civil war in progress and the strong possibility of its expansion in the future; they argue the irreconcilability of the opposing factions and declare that even a dictatorship of the Machado stamp is preferable to anarchy. There is some logical force behind this stand: as long as a large part...