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...nobody's surprise, greying Roberto Cochrane Simonsen joined his fellow Senators last week in voting to oust Communists from public office.* An influential member of anti-Communist President Dutra's party, he barely won his seat last January over Communist Candido Portinari, Brazil's greatest painter. His own anti-Red views are well known. Besides, Industrialist-Economist Simonsen is a top-rank spokesman for São Paulo's bustling industry, and Communists are bad for business...
Most Brazilians had approved the Soviet break (TIME, Oct. 27), and thousands of them gathered before Catete Palace to cheer President Dutra's explanation for it. But the Tribune, smash-up went against the Brazilian sense of justice and fair play. Next day the entire Rio press condemned both the police and the rowdies...
...Prestes, No. i South American Communist, had rallied over 130,000 Brazilians-intellectuals, workers and the dispossessed-to form the biggest Communist Party in the Western Hemisphere. Moscow-trained Luis Carlos Prestes preached cooperation with the bourgeoisie and discontent with the government. Six months ago, at Army behest, President Dutra had the Superior Electoral Court declare the Communist Party illegal. Then the Party turned to infiltration tactics, presumably with counsel and advice from the Soviet Embassy. Soon it had made deals within Dutra's own disorganized Social Democratic Party. Reluctantly, Dutra concluded that Brazil's new democracy...
Retort Discourteous. What sparked the Brazil-Soviet break was a rude affront to touchy national honor. Last fortnight Moscow's Izvestia said, in a generally churlish editorial on Brazil, that President Eurico Caspar Dutra was "surprisingly colorless even for a country where the generals are made, not on the battlefield, but on coffee plantations." The Brazilian Army fumed. A Foreign Office demand for an apology went unanswered. Last week the Brazilian Ambassador in Moscow was instructed to tell the Kremlin that 2½ years of edgy fraternity (but no trade) were all over...
Washington Luiz returned to a Brazil that could report progress under her year-old democratic Constitution. The fact of the Constitution itself was significant. "That," said a Brazilian, "gives us something to respect." President Eurico Caspar Dutra and Brazil's army had followed constitutional procedure when they suppressed the Communist party (TIME, May 19), and had acted only after obtaining the approval of the courts...