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...Brazil, where the big, 130,000-strong Communist Party is already outlawed, President Eurico Dutra asked his Congress to 1) hand civilian violators of national security over to military courts; 2) require loyalty pledges from all government employees. A wave of Communist-led strikes, railway sabotage and an explosion in a military arsenal that killed 32 had Brazilians worried. But in the last fortnight, police had rounded up 300 comrades, including the biting & scratching sister of Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. Brother Luis, who had been in hiding for months, was reported to have escaped to neighboring Uruguay...
Into Rio's Palacio Tiradentes one afternoon this week strode well-groomed Professor Pereira Lira, President Eurico Gaspar Dutra's personal counselor. He carried a heavy, leather-bound pile of papers, which he placed on the speaker's desk in the Chamber of Deputies. To the opening session of the Brazilian Congress the president had sent a 130,000-word message on the state of the nation...
...soldier Dutra, the honest plodder who had faced one crisis after another in three uneasy years as president, gave a good account of himself. He had balanced the 1947 budget and had $25 million left over (he was $141 million in the red in 1946). Moreover, Brazil's inflation-one of the worst in South America-now seemed to have leveled...
...diplomats of Jersey Standard, Shell and Texaco were anxiously waiting for Congress to write a law that would give them a freer hand in production, refining and distribution. Always before, the government had felt that Brazilians should control sales in Brazil. Now, with Dutra looking their way, the companies might get a law to their liking...
President Eurico Caspar Dutra's government, which has reportedly been waiting for an excuse to throw Prestes in jail, now seemed to have one. If Prestes wanted to return to prison and martyrdom, he had made a start...