Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Madrid to Rio, I read books on Brazil that praised the country's beauty, relaxed way of life and the gentle character of the peace-loving Brazilians. As I stepped off the M.S. Augustus on the morning of Aug. 18, my plans were to take it easy for a week or so to get acquainted with the new climate, people and city. Rio came up to all my hopes and expectations-yet there was a tenseness in the air. Armed troops patrolled the streets, and the press was full of violent polemics and screaming headlines. My plans...
...troubled days following Strong Man Getulio Vargas' suicide, Brazil's outlawed Communists tried hard to keep the pot boiling. But new President João Café Filho was ready for the Reds. When they organized a 24-hour general strike last week in industrial São Paulo, he relieved the local army commander as a suspected Red sympathizer, ordered troops and police to keep the public services going, and, most important, ended the day without gunplay or violence...
...Flight to Asylum. Brazil's new president is proud of his long career as a champion of the little man. As an editor-politician from northeast Brazil, Café Filho bucked the old Vargas dictatorship so vigorously that he had to flee to asylum in a Rio embassy. When he returned to Congress after World War II, as floor leader for the Social Progressive Party, he sat at his old desk on the opposition side. But his party bosses, after nominating him for Vice President in 1950, withdrew their own presidential nominee in return for Vargas' support...
Though barred constitutionally from running for President in 1955, Café Filho well knows that the problems that toppled Getulio Vargas cannot wait until after elections. A moderate conservative and a warm friend of the U.S., he believes that Brazil cannot solve its tangle of economic problems without the help of the country's chief trading partner. Said the President to a TIME correspondent last week: "An improvement of Brazilian living standards can only be obtained through the economic development of the country. This development cannot be achieved without a policy of collaboration and exchange with other countries...
Moments later. President Café Filho made his first request of Congress-for "a few days to learn the new ropes of governing." This week he will hold his first Cabinet meeting to plan the recovery of troubled Brazil...