Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could see harmony reigned in Brazil, and between Brazil and all nations. Side by side in front of the new War Ministry in Rio de Janeiro stood President Getulio Dornellas Vargas and his Minister of War, General Eurico Dutra. Their bland faces gave no hint of the tension existing within the Vargas Government - a tension which only recently caused a grave but laughable Cabinet crisis. According to the story that leaked out, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and other pro-U.S. ministers had planned an elaborate coup to get rid of Axis-sympathizing General Dutra...
...appointed day they had all filed into a Cabinet meeting and presented their resignations, to give Getulio Vargas "a free hand in the critical hour of Brazil's history." When all had offered their resignations but War Minister Dutra they all looked at him expectantly. Said...
...French-trained Brazilian troops in war games. Keeping mum on whether a U. S. or a German military mission would replace the French, whose term expired Sept. 1, he announced praisefully that Brazil's 80,000-man Army was adequate to protect her. War Minister General G. Eurica Dutra beamed, but he knew as well as President Vargas that Brazil's chief value to continental defense lies not in its Army but in its raw materials-among them, rubber...
...rewriting the Constitution when he pleased, Dictator Vargas has played a game of posing as the U. S.'s best South American neighbor while yielding more & more to totalitarian influences. Today his Foreign Minister, Oswaldo Aranha, is prodemocratic, pro-Ally, pro-U. S., while his War Minister, Eurico Dutra, and his Marine Minister, Enrique Guilhem. are outspokenly pro-Nazi. His people are prodemocratic, his Army pro-totalitarian...
...propaganda are Nazi influences on the military classes and on business interests. German military prestige with the Brazilian Army grows with each new success in Europe. Military missions go back & forth between Rio and Berlin; Berlin courts Army, Navy and Air Corps heads with assiduity. Last April. War Minister Dutra and Chief of Staff Góes Monteiro were given Germany's highest decoration awarded to foreigners, the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, and officers down to the rank of colonel were decorated. In a country with 75% illiteracy and a dictatorship from above...