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...morning last November President Getulio Vargas of Brazil sat down as usual to a dish of mamau (a Brazilian fruit that looks like cantaloupe), unfolded a newspaper with an expectant smile. It was the second anniversary of Brazil's Estado Novo-the semi-Fascist State that President Vargas created in 1937-and he looked forward to a paean of headlines in Brazil's press...
Slowly his smile faded. Getulio Vargas put down his spoon, opened one Rio de Janeiro paper after another, tossed each aside. In most, Year III of his Estado Novo began with no more than a few casual lines on page one. In some, it was buried deep inside. President Vargas' breakfast and his day were ruined...
...carpet Getulio Vargas there upon haled his debonair Director of Propaganda Lourival Fontes, to find out why Brazilian Fascism was getting a bad press. Senhor Fontes' answer was brief and to the point: Brazil's newspapers were sick of censorship...
Last week the 45,000,000 citizens of Brazil celebrated two anniversaries-their 50th as a Republic, their second as a dictatorship. In honor of the occasion, plump Dictator-President Getulio Vargas proclaimed a paternal decree setting up a national commission for the protection of parents with many children...
Last year the Brazilian Fascist organization of Integralistas tried a spectacular, unsuccessful coup against President Getulio Vargas. Suspicion was high that Germans in Brazil had had a hand in the affair. Dr. Karl Ritter, German Ambassador to Brazil, protested anti-Nazi measures following the uprising and soon after ward the Brazilian Government declared him persona non grata. For retaliation Germany asked that the Brazilian Ambassador to Berlin leave...