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Brazilians have a joke they like to tell on their popular Dictator-President Getulio Vargas. It concerns Sao Pedro Church, still standing in the middle of Rio de Janeiro's newly constructed, three-mile Getulio Vargas Avenue...
...seized parts of Maine, Vermont, North Dakota, California and Texas and sent Federal officers to take control from the states' Governors, that would be roughly equivalent to what happened in Brazil last week. "In the interests of national defense" (and possibly for other reasons), Brazil's President Getulio Vargas seized direct control of some 200,000 sq. mi. along the country's borders...
...Janeiro newspaper O Globo next day headlined: "BRAZIL'S IMMEDIATE AND DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR!" Last week O Globo asserted that Brazil actually would send an expeditionary force and that War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra had offered his services to President Getulio Vargas as commander of the force...
...Died. Getulio Vargas Jr., 24, youngest of the three sons of the President of Brazil; of infantile paralysis; after an illness of ten days; in Sao Paulo...
Getulinho ("little Getulio") is perhaps the most promising of President Vargas' three sons. Graduate of Brazil's Escola Nacional de Chymica, he spent four years at Johns Hopkins University as a student of chemical engineering. When stricken last week, popular, modest young Getulio was working in São Paulo's Nitro Chymica chemical-manufacturing company. His father and mother rushed to his bedside. Four days after the diagnosis of infantile paralysis President Vargas left for a conference at Natal. From his good friend Franklin D. Roosevelt he could expect deep sympathy and an inspiring example...