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...Brazilian President carried his message to New York and Omaha, where he visited the underground headquarters of the nuclear-armed U.S. Strategic Air Command, then he headed for home by way of Chicago and Mexico, taking with him a promise that President Kennedy will repay his visit with a trip to Brazil sometime this summer...
Senhor Joao Goulart suggested as much in Washington last week, when he expressed the hostility of many Brazilians to American notions that his country was so close to chaos as to seem a wholly unworthy investment to the Alliance for Progress. Where the notions came from it is easy to see. The wire services in particular have made far too much of a Governor's expropriation of a branch of the IT & T; they have said that Brazil's Northeast is on the brink of revolution. A recent article in the New Republic, besides stating that former President Kubtischek...
...received a personal letter from "our President." Barred by the constitution from retaking the presidency, Quadros may go along with supporters who would like to see him Prime Minister, a post that can be shaped by a strong man to satisfy his hunger for executive power. There are disillusioned Brazilians aplenty who regard Quadros as unstable and a potential dictator. But among the politicians who sense the Brazilian people's growing anger over their country's slothful government, there is a feeling that Quadros is a political messiah. From all over Brazil last week they were flocking to cling...
...that meaningful political legislation often depends on economic stability, that one cannot commit funds absolutely before one has them, and that it is silly to connect every political event in Latin America with the success of the Alliance. The trouble is that expropriation of the I.T. & T. in a Brazilian province, or the fact that Cuba has instituted a stiff rationing program, can seriously affect the Alliance, if American opinion allows them...
...American taxpayers ought not to mistrust his country's use of Alliance funds. Since Presidents do not "dip into public funds" and a critical free press is always active, the U.S. has no cause for worry about Brazilian expenditure of light capital abroad. (Kubitschek did not comment on Brazil's current inflation...