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Brazil's Vargas had more to comfort him last week than the prospect of a rest. Big, swashbuckling Governor Flores da Cunha of his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, who rebelliously threw his support to Candidate Salles de Oliveira to keep his onetime friend Vargas from succeeding himself, was left stranded absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship...
...have been wondering lately is whether this scramble has upped their State or merely shrewd Getulio Vargas. No sooner did the State's No. 2 politico, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, cast an anxious eye toward the Presidency than he was shipped off to Washington as Ambassador. General Flores da Cunha thereupon encouraged a Paulista, Armando Salles de Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus qualify himself as a candidate for next year's election. Such treachery to Rio Grande and himself has provoked Getulio Vargas to set up a parliamentary bloc to undermine General...
Coffee 6 Cattle. It was supposedly for the honor of Rio Grande do Sul that in 1930 General Flores da Cunha's Gauchos rode tumultuously into Rio de Janeiro, hitched their horses to the obelisk on bosky Avenida Rio Branco, bottled old President Washington Luis up in jail and helped Getulio Vargas become President of Brazil. Washington Luis and President-elect Julio Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world...
...General Flores da Cunha is apparently convinced, Getulio Vargas means to succeed himself again next year, the General may be able to start his civil war near home. President Vargas is most unpopular in Sao Paulo, which last week saw the first real chance in seven years to squeeze back into power through a brawl in Rio Grande. Strongly nationalist President Vargas is unpopular also in such States as Para and Amazonas, whose ambitious plans to import cheap Japanese labor for their rubber plantations the President halted with his 1934 immigration law. Under its terms, immigration from any nation...
...Paulo, Minas Geraes and Rio Grande do Sul and make the United States of Brazil as hard to manage as the United States of America is still remote, leaving Brazil's politicos free to wrestle with more immediate problems. Most immediate problem, whether General Flores da Cunha really could start a revolution, Getulio Vargas seemed to have for the moment well in hand. The next, whether he should succeed himself or put in a proxy president to warm his chair for him next year, Brazil was anxiously waiting for him to decide...