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Stiffening Lip. In Washington, where Ambassador Spruille Braden had arrived from Argentina to take over the direction of Latin American affairs, the mood was for a stiffer U.S. policy toward the dictators. After a talk with Braden in Rio. U.S. Ambassador Adolph Berle informed Brazilians (and President Getulio Vargas was listening) that the U.S. expected the upcoming Presidential elections to go through on schedule. This statement, coupled with Braden's spectacular campaign against Peron, augured a vigorous U.S. policy at the imminent (Oct. 20) Inter-American Conference...
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...
Brazil's green-shirted fascists, the Integralistas, had tried and failed to topple the Getulio Vargas government with some bold gun play in and around the presidential palace. That was in 1938. Last week, in smashing, full-page ads in Rio's leading newspapers, a new, subdued Integralism announced its revival in modern (democratic) dress...
Like many another Brazilian, Editor Borba still finds it hard to believe that the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 2 will ever materialize. He charged General Valentim Benicio da Silva with engineering "the same political atmosphere as that of 1937 when Getulio [President Getulio Vargas] with the Army's consent . . . took over the Government." The General's prompt answer: trial before the Security Tribunal...
...authorized a $45 million loan to finance Brazilian Dictator Getulio Vargas' dream of the Volta Redonda Steel Works...