Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazil's Communists, outlawed and barred from their headquarters, felt a little better after the first shock had worn off. The big reason for their sense of relief was that President Dutra's Government had lost the offensive. It had found itself legally unable to finish the Communists by turning their legislators out of Congress and stopping the presses of their raucous Tribuna Popular. Moreover, many a thoughtful Brazilian, with no love for Communism but with a lively memory of dictatorship, had rushed to support the Communist Party's right to exist...
...Communists showed their relief. In the Senate palace, Luis Carlos Prestes, Brazil's No. 1 Communist, popped up one afternoon to return some papers to the Commission of Justice, of which he is a member. He explained that he had been "too busy lately" to work on them. One evening in downtown Rio, a group called "The Friends of Paraguay" met to hear a Negro actor read the poems of U.S. leftist Langston Hughes. They were so moved that they soon addressed each other, not as "friend," but as "comrade." In the sultry Vermelinho (The Little...
Elsewhere, the anti-Yankee attacks were brassily strident. Tribuna Popular (still getting a half supply of newsprint from the Government) blamed the U.S., along with Dutra and the Army, for the "illegal" political ban. U.S. Ambassador William D. Pawley was accused of "leading the offensive of U.S. capital against Brazil." The facts: peripatetic Bill Pawley had been sunning himself in Miami at the time the Electoral Tribunal made up its mind on the Commies; the U.S. Embassy had maintained a scrupulous hands-off attitude toward the Government move; privately, Embassy officials felt there were better ways of fighting Communism than...
Topmost Branch. Either way, the Army still runs Brazil. Over 100,000 strong, it is the fourth-and dominant-branch of government. In the backlands, where the officer shares pre-eminence with the priest, it operates railways, civilizes the Indians. It has produced many of the country's political leaders, not excepting Communist Chief Luis Carlos Prestes, a commander in a civil war in the '20s. Last week it quelled a revolt of noncoms who would have restored ex-Dictator Vargas...
...mostly Brazil's Army works hand & glove with the Church to reinforce the country's reactionary social pattern. Many a Brazilian liberal feared last week that the Army was out to silence not just Communists but all critics of the Dutra government. Its strongest allies: Brazil's fatalistic masses, who after a year and a half of democracy still do not know what to make of it, still accept the Army as the country's most potent and inevitable political force...