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...beaches. Others packed the small square before Tiradentes Palace. Within, while society leaders tossed flowers from the balcony, members of the Constituent Assembly signed the constitution of Brazil's Third Republic. Then they paraded to the Presidential palace. "This opens a new era," said President Eurico Gaspar Dutra...
...week's end, the powerful Catholic Church called for a "social crusade" against the black market. President Eurico Caspar Dutra had already banned food exports and eased duties on imports. Housewives organized vigilante groups. But merchants threatened still higher prices...
Such banzai tactics have set Brazilians on edge and stiffened the nation's previously tolerant temper against the Japanese. As police rounded up 27 leading terrorists in Sâo Paulo State, President Eurico Caspar Dutra last week ordered the deportation of 76 others. Said Rio's Correio da Manhâ: "We should not try to change their mentality-only their addresses." Correio's suggested new address: c/o Douglas MacArthur, Tokyo...
Brazil's Communists, with a year of legal existence to celebrate, were out to celebrate it in downtown Rio. The Dutra Government, alarmed by mounting strikes and mass demonstrations (TIME, May 27), was just as intent on putting Rio's 150,000 unruly partisans in their place. Rio's police chief, somber José Pereira Lira, ordered them to meet in the remote beachside suburb of Ipanema. The Communists refused, scattered thousands of handbills calling all proletarians to downtown Carioca Square...
...other parts of Brazil, the anti-Communist drive continued. The Government, in breaking up a strike against the Leopoldina Railway staged by $25 a month firemen, blamed the work stoppage on Communist "millionaire Luis Carlos Prestes." Brazilian democrats hoped that heavy-handed Dutra, in stamping out Communism, would not also crush democracy...