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President-Dictator Getulio Vargas stood on the Avenida Rio Branco last week, watched the 1st Expeditionary Infantry Division parade through Rio de Janeiro. Soon they will sail for overseas battlefields (destination: secret). The President and his people had not been chummy of late (Brazilians want more democracy), but here was something of which they could all be proud. For over two hours the ruler-straight lines swept past, replete with brand-new howitzers, anti-tank guns, mortars, armored cars, jeeps from...
...short days prior to the declaration, submarines had sunk six Brazilian ships, bringing Brazil'stotal of Axis-sunk ships to 19. Lost with the ships were 169 Brazilian officers and soldiers and more than 600 civilians. As the news reached Rio, crowds swarmed into the Avenida Rio Branco, smashed windows of Axis stores, burned Nazi flags, clamored...
Focus of carnaval is swank, tree-lined Avenida Rio Branco. There on Sunday thousands of automobiles (mostly sub-jalopy seven-passenger touring cars) brimming with people in costume drive along in the "Corso" singing, pelting each other with confetti. Monday the "Ranches" take over the town, small clubs of marchers who skimp for months for their costumes, compete heatedly in dancing, playing, singing. Tuesday night winds up with a contest of mammoth floodlit floats. Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is a half-holiday conceded to the slack-jawed weariness of the city...
Coffee 6 Cattle. It was supposedly for the honor of Rio Grande do Sul that in 1930 General Flores da Cunha's Gauchos rode tumultuously into Rio de Janeiro, hitched their horses to the obelisk on bosky Avenida Rio Branco, bottled old President Washington Luis up in jail and helped Getulio Vargas become President of Brazil. Washington Luis and President-elect Julio Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world...
...junction of Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Beira-Mar stands an obelisk, pride of the city. Last week 16 slouch-hatted gauchos (cowboys) with ponchos over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk...