Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheaf of papers-an extraordinary farewell letter. It proved to be a calculated and deadly thrust against his foes. "Once more," it began, "the forces and interests against the people are newly coordinated and raised against me." He blasted with equal fervor his political opponents and foreign enterprises in Brazil. Only at the end did Vargas speak of death, but then his words were the sort to move men: "I offer my life in the holocaust. I choose this means to be with you always. When they humiliate you, you will feel my soul suffering at your side. When hunger...
...fought against the looting of Brazil. I fought against the looting of the people. I have fought barebreasted. The hatred, infamy and calumny did not beat down my spirit. I gave you my life. Now I offer my death. Nothing remains. Serenely I take the first step on the road to eternity, and I leave life to enter history...
Dictator or not, Vargas liked to call himself "the best friend of the U.S. in Latin America." When war came, he swung his country to the Allied side. The U.S. established a string of air bases across Brazil's strategic Atlantic bulge, and Vargas sent a division to General Mark Clark's command on the Italian front. Benignly accepting the title of "father of the poor," the strongman also gave Brazil the 48-hour week, the minimum wage, and social security...
BISHOP SANTE UBERTO BARBIERI, 52. Methodist of Buenos Aires also elected to the Council presidency. An Italian silk-weaver's son who started to read for the law while he rode about Brazil on a bony horse selling jewelry, Bishop Barbieri today heads a constituency half the size...
Died. Getulio Vargas. 71. onetime (1930-45) dictator and, since 1950, the constitutionally-elected President of Brazil; by his own hand (shooting); in Rio de Janeiro (see HEMISPHERE...