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Brazil's President Getulio Dornelles Vargas had not lost his touch. Last week, with a flourish of his wily pen, he brightened the chances of Government-backed Candidate General Eurico Gaspar Dutra in the approaching (Dec. 2) presidential elections, rocked opposition candidate General Eduardo Gomes back on his heels and left the Government's uneasy Communist allies stunned. A presidential decree 1) advanced the date of state elections to coincide with the presidential elections, 2) required state governors to resign and stand for election if they want to succeed themselves...
Silver-maned ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stirred up the already turbulent presidential election campaign with a story that had Brazil by the ears. Two years ago, related soft-spoken Aranha, General Eurico Caspar Dutra conspired to overthrow President Getulio Vargas. (Current point of the story: Dutra is a candidate for the Presidency in Brazil's December national election, and Vargas is ostensibly supporting him.) The plot was nipped by Vargas before the coup could be executed, Aranha said...
...telling no one. In 1930, lacking votes, he had launched his "candidacy" with the guns of his Rio Grande do Sul gaúchos. Now, he could probably corner an easy majority in any election, but the fire power was on the other side-that of presidential candidates General Eurico Caspar Dutra and Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. As long as Vargas was not a candidate, Dutra and Gomes would attack each other. But if Vargas fixed his eye on Term II, the Generals might unite their forces and, by an Army revolt, turn out the President...
Brazilians last week still had no electoral code, no legal political parties, no idea when the promised Presidential elections would be held. But they did have a new candidate. War Minister Eurico Caspar Dutra's gold-braided general's hat was pitched into the ring. As the Government's entry, Dutra replaced President Getulio Vargas, who a fortnight ago decided that he was "not a candidate...
...Janeiro newspaper O Globo next day headlined: "BRAZIL'S IMMEDIATE AND DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR!" Last week O Globo asserted that Brazil actually would send an expeditionary force and that War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra had offered his services to President Getulio Vargas as commander of the force...