Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eurico Caspar Dutra's regime finally squelched the Revista. But when Getulio Vargas returned to power last January, Estillac Leal became his War Minister. He permitted the Red editors to revive Revista. When criticism flared, Estillac protested that he was a busy man and took a leave from the club presidency. Army anti-Communists grew angrier. After a bitter campaign, they won a promise that a referendum vote would be held on whether the membership really supported the Revista's leftist editorial policy...
...Brazil, where the Dutra administration's attitude toward the U.S. sometimes seemed poisoned by a sort of grandiose inferiority complex, Miller will find a different and in some respects greatly improved situation. President Getulio Vargas has announced that he wants to cooperate with the U.S. on a reciprocal basis. In particular, he wants industrialization loans. Miller, who knows as well as Vargas that Brazil can absorb far more in development loans than the $175 million the U.S. has allotted in the last two years, will take along Francis Adams Truslow, retiring head of the New York Curb Exchange...
Downfall & Comeback. In 1945, when dictatorships went out of fashion, army booted him out of office in a bloodless coup. Retiring to his native Rio Grande do Sul, he bided his time. As postwar inflation worsened, the Dutra government's popularity waned. By campaign time last year, the forces opposed to him had disintegrated...
...neglecting them, the announcement carried special political significance, and it strengthened U.S. prestige. Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes had worked six months to get the program started, and was responsible for the timing of the announcement before year's end. Both he and President Eurico Gaspar Dutra regarded the obtaining of the Point Four spending program as a crowning achievement of their administration, and they wanted to get it on their record before they hand over the government to Getulio Vargas next month...
...that Getulio Vargas was the President-elect, what could Brazil expect next? With three-quarters of the votes counted, there was no longer any doubt that the little ex-dictator had shaken the nation with an electoral landslide. Even before the final count, President Dutra sent word to Vargas last week that the government would "protect the people's mandate," i.e., tolerate no coups between now and Vargas' inaugural next Jan. 31. After that, it would be up to Getulio Vargas...