Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, Brazilian politicians have firmly believed that the way to get elected was to be either leftwing, nationalistic, or both. Now the traditional also-ran party-the U.D.N., a middle-reading, free-enterprise, pro-U.S. party-is coming up fast, as evidenced in Brazil's recent mid-term elections. For a look at the change and a new dark horse, see THE HEMISPHERE, Coming...
...program in shape for announcement at next week's 41st anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Khrushchev leaped nimbly back into his old round of international politicking. He talked long with U.S. Columnist Walter Lippmann, told a Brazilian journalist "we could supply Soviet machines and specialists to Brazil." In his most formal black hat he welcomed Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka at the rainswept Byelorussian station for an important party visit. But his flashing feat of the week was bringing off an international propaganda coup in the Arab Middle East...
Ever since the reign of Dictator Getulio Vargas, a pair of Vargas-founded parties-one a left-winging, Communist-infiltrated labor party, the other the nationalistic party of President Juscelino Kubitschek-have had things pretty much their own way in Brazil. Now a conservative, middle-roading party is challenging the old leaders. It is the National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), whose president, Juracy Magalhaes, 53, has suddenly become a dark horse worth watching in the 1960 race for the presidency...
...Surprise. In last month's midterm congressional and state elections, the U.D.N. scored a stunning victory. It picked up two new governorships, added six Senate seats to its 13, seven more Chamber of Deputies posts to make 81. The win was a massive upset for Brazil's leftist labor party and its demagogic boss, Vice President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, who also has his sights on the presidency. Goulart openly wooed the votes of Brazil's Communists. It cost him thousands of votes; Brazilians flocked to the U.D.N. Said Juracy* last week: "Our party has obviously...
...strong, far outnumber Togoland's 2,000-odd Europeans. A former German protectorate, Togoland has, since 1922, been run by the French, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under a U.N. trusteeship. Its hottest politician is Premier Sylvanus Olympic, whose family once were slaves in Brazil...