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...Said Portinari, explaining his conversion to politics: "We must all take our posts in this decisive phase of history, whose march no force can detain, because it is more powerful than the atomic bomb." Rio political analysts thought Communist Candidate Fiuza might nose out ex-War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra for second place. But most Brazilians were betting on General Eduardo Gomes to win the Presidency. Whoever won would have a man-size job bringing order out of the economic chaos and fraud turning up in the wake of the departed Getulio Vargas...
Millions of Americans know Caspar Milquetoast as well as they know Tom Sawyer and Andrew Jackson, better than they know George F. Babbitt, and any amount better than they know such world figures as Mr. Micawber and Don Quixote. They know him, in fact, almost as well as they know their own weaknesses...
Silver-maned ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stirred up the already turbulent presidential election campaign with a story that had Brazil by the ears. Two years ago, related soft-spoken Aranha, General Eurico Caspar Dutra conspired to overthrow President Getulio Vargas. (Current point of the story: Dutra is a candidate for the Presidency in Brazil's December national election, and Vargas is ostensibly supporting him.) The plot was nipped by Vargas before the coup could be executed, Aranha said...
...lacking votes, he had launched his "candidacy" with the guns of his Rio Grande do Sul gaúchos. Now, he could probably corner an easy majority in any election, but the fire power was on the other side-that of presidential candidates General Eurico Caspar Dutra and Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. As long as Vargas was not a candidate, Dutra and Gomes would attack each other. But if Vargas fixed his eye on Term II, the Generals might unite their forces and, by an Army revolt, turn out the President...
...giggle is a dirty Caspar. The cattle are aggieing about...