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...population is white, about 5% pure Indian, 12% pure black; the rest are mixed. There is a small upper class, a smaller middle class, a large, illiterate, exploited lower class. This class has no franchise, no influence, no right of assembly, of organization, of free speech. Dictator Vargas' Estado Novo (New State), has talked loudly of bettering their lot, is still talking...
...Actress Gaby Deslys, was deposed in 1910 and after a short revolution a republic was proclaimed. Between 1910 and 1926, 40 Governments and 18 revolutions followed in rapid succession. Then the Army took control, placed General (now President) Carmona in power, and paved the way for the totalitarian Estado Novo under a tight-fisted dictator, Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
Next week, on the 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Republic, every newspaper in Brazil celebrated with bold headlines. President Vargas understood. His country's press was still loyal to the Republic, cared not a snap for his Estado Novo...
Authoritarian though Brazil is, its Estado Novo has no political link with Italy's Stato Corporativo, Germany's Third Reich. When war started, with German agents swarming over the country, trying to buy up Brazilian papers to counteract Brazil's Allied sympathies, President Vargas clamped on the press a censorship as tight and thorough as Edouard Daladier's control of the French press...
After the deafening newspaper silence on Estado Novo's birthday, Getulio Vargas pondered for six weeks, then acted. Two days after Christmas he published a new decree (effective Jan. 1) abolishing both Civis Muller's job and Lourival Fontes', unifying censorship and propaganda under a single Ministry, responsible directly to the President...