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...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...
...usual, canny Getulio was in no hurry to commit himself. From Rio Grande do Sul, the old man issued his first post-election statement. Said Getulio: "I come to power with a heart clean of hate and resentment ... I bow before a triumph which has been less mine than that of the Brazilian people." Aside from talking vaguely about forming a coalition or perhaps a British-style labor government, that was about all he said...
Just at noon on the day after elections, the vote count began in Rio's Hotel dos Estrangeiros. Electoral Board No. 13 opened the first presidential ballots. The judge looked at the first ballot and intoned: "The first vote is for Getulio Vargas." The second, third and fourth ballots were also for Vargas. Not until the fifth ballot did Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes score. The first vote for Christiano Machado, the government's candidate, was recorded even later...
There seemed to be little doubt that Getulio Vargas, 67, who five years ago was turned out of the presidency by the army, after a dictatorial reign of 15 years, was on the way to a smashing comeback. By this week, three out of eight million votes had been counted across the vast republic, and Getulio was running as strong as the Amazon, polling 55% of the vote. He led in all but four states, in rural areas as well as the cities...
...Getulio Vargas, 67, onetime (1930-45) Dictator-President, trying for a comeback on his own Labor Party (P.T.B.) ticket...