Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Know Brazil...
...most turbulent sessions in Brazil's legislative history reached its climax last week. The issue: Bill 900-A, a measure to cancel the mandates (jobs) of all Communist legislators. For hours in the summer heat, shouts and insults were traded back & forth. Deputies screamed, leaped on the benches, fell back in steaming exhaustion as the galleries shrieked approval. A Communist cry of "sellout" brought the pistols of government deputies waving...
Where were Brazil's Communist big shots? Leader Prestes was variously reported hiding in Sao Paulo and streaking off for Montevideo, where a Latin-American Cominform is rumored for the near future. Already there was famed Communist Artist Candido Portinari. Last week at least, brilliant young Architect Oscar Niemeyer was sticking...
...Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...
Tacho was right about Costa Rica, Honduras and Trujilloland, but the other countries hastily denied any such intentions. At week's end, the Foreign Office lamely admitted that it had all been a mistake. Tacho had cabled New Year's greetings to the American republics and when Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay sent him best wishes in return, he had mistaken them for notes of recognition...