Word: estillac
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...organization open to all Brazilian officers. Organizing Cell No. 2 of their Democratic Front of National Liberation inside the club, they gained influence by lobbying in Congress for more pay and privileges for officers. In the club's 1950 elections, they helped elect as club president General Newton Estillac Leal, the candidate of Getulio Vargas, then launching his political comeback; at the same time, they worked their own men into key jobs on the club directorate...
President Eurico Caspar Dutra's regime finally squelched the Revista. But when Getulio Vargas returned to power last January, Estillac Leal became his War Minister. He permitted the Red editors to revive Revista. When criticism flared, Estillac protested that he was a busy man and took a leave from the club presidency. Army anti-Communists grew angrier. After a bitter campaign, they won a promise that a referendum vote would be held on whether the membership really supported the Revista's leftist editorial policy...
...officers flocked to Rio from all over Brazil. Commies strung wires into the high-ceilinged hall of the Club Militar, prepared to broadcast their last-minute speeches by loudspeaker into the streets below. That evening the War Minister was summoned by President Vargas. After an hour's conference, Estillac Leal went straight to the club, announced that he was resuming the presidency and-to permit "a cooling-off of passions"-postponed the referendum for 30 days...