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...whatever may befall us. There will always be between us, I am sure, a special alliance." There were more immediate matters to discuss. The Brazilians having promised to compensate the former French owners of the Sāo Paulo-Rio Grande railroad nationalized in 1940, De Gaulle and President Castello Branco issued a communiqué expressing the hope that "the two governments will reach fully satisfactory results as rapidly as possible regarding the other questions still pending between France and Brazil." The most outstanding of these problems is the Brazilian claim that once Brazilian, a lobster always remains Brazilian...
After six months of housecleaning, Brazil's revolutionary government last week gave up its power to purge-just as President Humberto Castello Branco had promised it would. The bristles in Castello Branco's broom were two articles in the sweeping Institutional Act decreed by the revolutionaries after they deposed leftist President João Goulart last April. Under Article 10, which was in effect for two months, the government could revoke for ten years the political rights of anyone judged guilty of subversion or corruption; under Article 7, lasting six months, it could fire or retire any government...
Article 10 was applied in secret, with no defense permitted; evidence was heard and acted upon behind closed doors by a panel of officers and civilians, who then presented their recommendations to President Castello Branco for approval. When it expired four months ago, 378 Brazilians, including three ex-Presidents (Juscelino Kubitschek, Jânio Quadros and the deposed João Goulart) had been stripped of their rights to vote, hold elective office or government jobs. With Goulart, it was academic, since he had fled to exile in Uruguay, but it ended, at least temporarily, the careers of Kubitschek...
...Museums, and paintings by Rouault and Utrillo. In Buenos Aires a French-born cabinetmaker put the finishing touches on a 7-ft. 2-in. bed, while in Rio de Janeiro carpenters readied a pair of chairs that would hopefully diminish the undiplomatic disparity in height between Brazilian President Humberto Castello Branco (5 ft. 5 in.) and his 6-ft. 4-in. visitor...
...quotas on world coffee, reacted in the consumer's behalf: by a narrow 194-to-183 vote, the House rejected legislation that would allow the U.S. to join in the new quota agreement. Though Administration leaders count on eventual approval, the action jolted Brazilians into asking President Humberto Castello Branco to convene an emergency meeting of all world coffee producers. The new quotas, argued Brazilian congressmen, are meaningless without U.S. participation...