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When the vote was finally taken, and the result announced-181 to 74 for the bill's passage-the comrades cried a last "Viva General Luis Carlos Prestes!" and "Viva Russia!" A few minutes later, at Catete Palace, President Eurico Caspar Dutra signed 900-A in the presence of top army brass who had reportedly strong-armed the bill through. Gloated the pro-government A Noite: "The beauty of it is . . . that within the law we were able to put the Communists outside...
...Communist daily, the name-changing Tribuna Popular, got the treatment a few hours after President Dutra signed 900-A. A police detail appeared with a two-week suspension order from the Minister of Justice. Gingerly trying Tribuna's metal door, they set off a burglar alarm, and then started shooting. For half an hour they fought it out, until police machine guns and tear gas ended the brawl. Score: four Communists seriously wounded...
Aranha, now 53, holds some powerful cards. His own opposition National Democratic Union Party sees him as a natural; President Dutra and the government respect his work at U.N. But talkative Aranha cagily refuses to say a word about the presidency. "It is like being advertised as the star of a football match," he says warily. "You may be destroyed before the end of the game...
...while last fortnight many a Brazilian feared that constitutional government was in danger. President Dutra's own P.S.D. (Social Democratic Party) had splintered beneath him. In a highly significant local election last week, Fascist-minded Getulio Vargas, dictator for 15 years, and sallow Luis Carlos Prestes, the Communist he kept jailed for nine of them, had joined to get control of rich São Paulo State. To get some democratic backing against this alliance, Dutra had only one course, and he took it. He called on the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union) Party for support. To steaming Bahia...
Mangabeira had long sessions with close-mouthed President Dutra. In the wicker-chaired lobby of the musty-genteel Central Hotel, Army officers, party leaders and Cabinet Ministers waited their turn to join the sessions in his room. The likely outcome: an agreement to forget petty politicking in Congress and tackle the nation's considerable economic ills together. Perhaps later Brazil would have a coalition cabinet...