Word: canrobert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazilians were inordinately coup-conscious last week because General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, the respected chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, had made it painfully clear in a weekend speech that top military men were prepared to consider "intervention" if it seemed to them that the October presidential election threatened to bring on "revolution and chaos." But, paradoxically, the general's stern words may have lessened the immediate danger of a coup. The speech evoked an answering torrent of anticoup sentiments from the press, public, politicos and even some military leaders. That strong reaction would probably influence...
...Governor Juscelino Kubitschek (whom the army dislikes): "Canrobert's speech is not in harmony with reality...
...Filho, whose prestige would be needed to guarantee the success of a bloodless coup and avoid the risk of civil war, told an interviewer: "I will never be instrumental in establishing a dictatorial regime." At week's end, after a long conference with the President, General Canrobert decided that there was no reason why he should not enter the Central Army Hospital for a long-postponed medical checkup...
...Fixit. For whatever good it might do, Adhemar was careful to drop in on War Minister Canrobert Pereira da Costa and Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, both presidential possibilities themselves. One rumor had him offering the foreign ministry to Elder Statesman Oswaldo Aranha. Said Aranha: "Pooh-pooh...
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