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Brazil, under the pro-Allied rule of Franklin Roosevelt's good friend Getulio Vargas, has a postal censorship so rigid that almost any criticism of its Government is a criminal offense. According to a returning traveler, an American businessman recently wrote a letter lambasting Brazilian business practices. He was jailed, held incommunicado for three days, then sent home on a plane. Finally Ambassador Jefferson Caffery heard of the case, made representations...
President Getulio Vargas of Brazil, ex-critic, author of his own speeches (twelve published volumes), was made a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was the first Brazilian chief of state to make...
Like most of the world at war, Brazil has been suffering from inflation. Few weeks ago Dictator President Getulio Vargas decreed increases in nearly all wages. So that further price increases would not cancel wage hikes, Economic Coordinator João Alberto Lins de Barros fixed ceilings on all goods and transportation charges (as of Nov. 10). But, suspecting that ceilings alone would not do the trick, he took many other measures...
...often in hiding, was once caught and imprisoned for six months. He was driven into exile, struggling across the wilderness of the Matto Grosso to the Bolivian frontier. After lean years among the outs, he was one of the leaders of the 1930 revolution which anchored his chief, Getulio Vargas, in Guanabara Palace. Subsequent revolutionary movements failed, and João Alberto had much to do with their failure...
...will freeze the church foundations," they say, "and move it on a track of ice. If that works, we will freeze old Pão de Açucar and move it from the harbor entrance.* Then, if that succeeds, we will freeze Getulio and move him out of the way for a democracy...