Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazilians staged the largest popular election in South American history last week. The apparent winner, ex-War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra, was backed by Getulio Vargas, the man who had ruled Brazil for 15 years, under a form of government the U.S. considered (but did not officially call) dictatorship. But impartial observers agreed that the election had been carried out fairly and squarely...
...convinced the press, foreign embassies and correspondents that he would be the winner, was borne out-in Rio. But in industrial Sāo Paulo, in Vargas' southern gaúcho country, in the hinterland generally, the functionaries of the old regime had turned out enough votes for Dutra to override Gomes...
...Decision. Shy, quiet, grey-haired General Dutra was no political spellbinder. But even his opponents admitted that, as an officer, he had been notable for his courage and decision...
Because he admired efficiency, he was once an admirer of the Nazi war machine. That was back in the '30s. When Nazi submarines started sinking Brazilian ships, Dutra's political thinking matured. As Minister of War, he called on the Brazilian Army to repel such aggression. Soon Brazil entered the war on the side of the Allies and Dutra, who later visited the U.S., decided he liked democratic U.S. ways. Said he: "Brazil and the U.S. have chosen a common lot of sacrifice and heroism, to defend democracy and fight oppression and perfidy...
Brazilians who had called him "too idealistic and too politically naive" now praised him for "his honesty and firmness, pitted him against Vargas' old War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra for the Presidency...