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Tight as a cocklebur Dictator-President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona stuck to the saddle of the restless Republic of Portugal last week, a saddle in which he has ridden for the past five years...
...Silence! Respect!" The coup d'etat in Rio de Janeiro, contrary to many U. S. newspaper stories and headlines last week, was not featured by the resignation of venerable, white-bearded President Washington Luis. What happened was this: at 1 p. m. Federal General Tasso Fragoso and Federal General Jaoa de Deus Menna Barreto, both natives of Rio Grande do Sul, approached the presidential palace at the head of a body of officers, announced that they and virtually the whole body of federal officers in the capital had decided to take over the government as a military junta...
...General Fragoso and his brother officers were admitted to an anteroom where he paced up & down. In the adjoining library frantic ministers begged the "60-year-old President to resign. Turning his back on them he walked into his office, slammed the door. Just then General Fragoso opened the library door, stuck his head in. "I do not care to invade another's home," he apologized, "but where is the President...
Mute forefingers pointed. General Fragoso with two of his staff crossed the library, entered the President's office, gently closed the door. Minute later the voice of dauntless old Washington (named for George Washington) Luis was heard through the panel: "The least thing I value is my life-I WILL NOT SURRENDER! Leave this room...
...General Fragoso appeared in a trice, escorted President and Cardinal through a mob which began to jeer. "SILENCE! RESPECT!" roared General Fragoso. Respectfully silence came. The deposed President was conducted to the fortress of Copacabana. He did not resign last week, but his presidential term expires Nov. 15 in any case...