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Oddly enough, Welles was impressed with the "courage" and "determination" of Neville Chamberlain. Welles also has good words for Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, and for the State Department's policies toward Vichy and the late Admiral Darlan...
President-Dictator Getulio Vargas stood on the Avenida Rio Branco last week, watched the 1st Expeditionary Infantry Division parade through Rio de Janeiro. Soon they will sail for overseas battlefields (destination: secret). The President and his people had not been chummy of late (Brazilians want more democracy), but here was something of which they could all be proud. For over two hours the ruler-straight lines swept past, replete with brand-new howitzers, anti-tank guns, mortars, armored cars, jeeps from...
...week began a series of uncensored articles in the Christian Science Monitor. First victim was big Brazil, which most people in the U.S. think of as a great & good friend of democracy. Correspondent Sharp found much to admire, much to praise. But he blasted the dictatorial methods of President Getulio Vargas. Sore point: the rigid censorship ("so urbane and clever that it lulls many correspondents into voluntary compliance with its blackout of the free press"). Wrote Mr. Sharp...
Controlled Inflation. In Rio de Janeiro, President Getulio Vargas granted a 60% increase in the price of luncheon in the government-sponsored workers' restaurant. The new price of the luncheon...
Valentim Boucas, amiable financial adviser to President Getulio Vargas, was in Washington last week. He concluded an agreement which raised the price of wild Amazon rubber and shifted to the Brazilians the responsibility for producing it (TIME, Feb. 28). Also on his mind was the dubious postwar future of Amazon rubber...