Word: dutra
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...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...
Until all the votes were counted, Brazil's political pundits remained understandably quiet. But two facts seemed to be clear already: Vargas had lost none of his appeal to Brazil's working classes, and the country had apparently tired of the vacillating, do-nothing policies of the Dutra government...
...uninspired but careful constitutional rule. His rivals took a forthright stand on the proposition that, as outs, they could do a better job than the ins. The candidates tacitly ignored foreign affairs; Korea was hardly mentioned. Vargas supporters sometimes charged the present government with serving U.S. interests, and Dutra's partisans accused Vargas of accepting subsidies from Peron; but none of these charges could be made to stick...
...Promises. Of the three, stiff-backed General Gomes could count on the most solid, unsplit block of votes, the same 2,000,000 he won as Dutra's runnerup in 1945. But many Brazilians wrote him off as a crusty aristocrat, and the Brigadeiro characteristically refused to cut loose with the slashing spiels that might win him wider backing. "I have built my house," he snapped. "Now I can't add any more floors to it." Dutra's Candidate Machado was even less disposed to lash out from the stump. But the mild little man from Minas...