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First Brazil ordered all her merchantmen home or into the nearest friendly port. Then President Getulio Dornellas Vargas issued two new decrees. Though his Constitution gives him the right, in case of aggression, to declare war without consulting Brazil's decorative legislative bodies, he made assurance doubly sure by reaffirming this power. The other decree amended the Constitution to permit him to seize up to 30% of Axis assets, estimated at between four and six million dollars, exclusive of blocked credits in the Banco do Brasil...
...years the Government of President Getulio Dornellas Vargas has kept a light hand on all news dispatches leaving Brazil, as well as on the domestic press, movies and radio. Last fortnight the grip was released. Dapper, curly-haired Lourival Fontes, director of the D.I.P. (Department of Press and Propaganda) announced to foreign correspondents in Rio de Janeiro that, from now on, no outgoing news would be censored...
Although an immediate unanimous diplomatic rupture with the Axis had been thwarted by Chilean-Argentine opposition. Statesman Welles and such other notable statesmen as Brazil's President Getulio Vargas and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla and Uruguay's Alberto Guanú had given new meaning to the term Americanism. They had preserved the moral unity of the 21 Nations, driven Axis diplomats from 19 of them, and throttled Axis trade. With resolutions calling for economic mobilization and the unification of hemisphere defenses, they had begun the task of making America economically...
Brazil's President Getulio Vargas opened the Conference with a speech calling for "the most solid and powerful alliance of free and sovereign nations that the history of humanity has ever known." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú began to fidget...
Industrious and endowed with a spider's timing for the coup de grâce, Aranha was the "strong man" of the 1930 revolution which put dumpy little Getulio Dornellas Vargas into power. As No. 1 man, Vargas has been an old-fashioned South American dictator with newfangled ideas patterned on the academic peasant-paced authoritarianism of Portugal...