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...troubled days following Strong Man Getulio Vargas' suicide, Brazil's outlawed Communists tried hard to keep the pot boiling. But new President João Café Filho was ready for the Reds. When they organized a 24-hour general strike last week in industrial São Paulo, he relieved the local army commander as a suspected Red sympathizer, ordered troops and police to keep the public services going, and, most important, ended the day without gunplay or violence...
Unruffled by reports that the Reds planned to make further trouble before the October congressional elections, the new President settled down to run the government with a new, informal touch. The hard-faced bodyguards of Vargas days vanished. Spurning the luxurious palace quarters, Café Filho continued to live in his three-bedroom Copacabana apartment. When the usual motorcycle fleet arrived to escort him on his first morning's drive to the palace, he ordered the escort abolished. At least once in the first week he dashed home, stripped off coat and tie, and lunched in comfort with...
...Flight to Asylum. Brazil's new president is proud of his long career as a champion of the little man. As an editor-politician from northeast Brazil, Café Filho bucked the old Vargas dictatorship so vigorously that he had to flee to asylum in a Rio embassy. When he returned to Congress after World War II, as floor leader for the Social Progressive Party, he sat at his old desk on the opposition side. But his party bosses, after nominating him for Vice President in 1950, withdrew their own presidential nominee in return for Vargas' support...
Roused from bed at dawn to be told that Vargas had turned the government over to him, Vice President Joࣞ Café Filho* 55, was being photographed in his pajamas when he learned that the old man had put him in an even tighter spot by committing suicide. The new chief of state took over his job without any ceremony. While heavily armed troops held Rio like a city at war, he moved fast to avert any coups and to restore order...
TIME errs in stating that "Mademoiselle" from Armentières was an invention . . . The little French girl who slapped a general's face and thus inspired the famous war song was as virtuous as she was pretty. She was employed at a café early in World War I when Armentières was a resting place for troops . . . Entertainment was organized by a London music-hall actor, "Red" Rowland, and the Canadian songwriter Lieut. Gitz-Rice...