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President Getulio Vargas last week told Brazilians the one thing they most wanted to know: whether he would be a candidate in the forthcoming elections-Brazil's first free balloting in over ten years. Said Vargas: "I ask nothing for myself. I am not a candidate." He added that he would not quit the Presidency "either through violence or aggression" but would turn over his office "to my legally chosen successor." He did not say that he would refuse to be drafted...
Indignation swept restive Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, the powerful National Students' Union met angrily. Cried Byronic young Newsman Carlos Lacerda: "I accuse Getulio Vargas and Agamenon Magalhaes [new Minister of Justice] of the assassination of the student Democrito. Under the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas, youth has only one right, which is to die for its country. This it is doing in Italy. Youth comes to the streets today to demand another right: a Government which represents the people of Brazil. . . . And if this right is denied it, it still has, like the student of Recife, the right...
Brazilian newspapermen had waited seven years for a collective interview with their Dictator-President, Dr. Getulio Dornelles Vargas. Last week, in Brazil's summer capital, over 100 reporters and editors jampacked a small, ornate salon, waiting patiently to question Dr. Vargas about the "Additional Act" - his brand-new constitutional amendment...
Valentim Bougas of Brazil, President-Dictator Getulio Vargas' discreet financial negotiator, was active behind the scenes. Genial, foxy Sefior Bougas, a veteran of many conferences, tagged this one like the rest: "First comes the illusion, then disillusion, finally reality...
...past six months Brazil has seethed with rumors that President Getulio Vargas, eager to present a democratic façade at the brave new world conferences (Mexico City, San Francisco), would hold free elections and remove his heavy hand from the country's press. Last week Vargas published his Cabinet Ministers' recommendations for a revised constitution and elections. He also ungagged the press...