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Where the Dictator of China succeeded, the President of Brazil, vigorous Getulio Vargas, last week did even better. Washington last fortnight agreed to let China buy with silver an unannounced quantity of sterilized U. S. gold (TIME, July 19).* Last week President Roosevelt and Secretary Morgenthau gave Brazil the right to buy with U. S. paper currency up to $60,000,000 in gold. This coup for Rio de Janeiro marked the first time the New Deal has thus favored a foreign country excepting Britain and France. Mexico, like China, has been permitted to buy U. S. Treasury gold...
...wheel of vast Brazil for seven years has sat dressy little President Getulio Vargas, who elected himself the first time in 1930 by throwing President-elect Julio Prestes in jail and was legally "reelected" for his present term which expires next year. Last week even the remotest of Brazil's jungle towns heard the news they had long been awaiting: that Strong Man Vargas is content to abide by Brazil's Constitution which forbids him to succeed himself in January's presidential election. Chosen in Rio de Janeiro by an all-party conclave as the "official...
...General Flores da Cunha is apparently convinced, Getulio Vargas means to succeed himself again next year, the General may be able to start his civil war near home. President Vargas is most unpopular in Sao Paulo, which last week saw the first real chance in seven years to squeeze back into power through a brawl in Rio Grande. Strongly nationalist President Vargas is unpopular also in such States as Para and Amazonas, whose ambitious plans to import cheap Japanese labor for their rubber plantations the President halted with his 1934 immigration law. Under its terms, immigration from any nation...
...Grande do Sul and make the United States of Brazil as hard to manage as the United States of America is still remote, leaving Brazil's politicos free to wrestle with more immediate problems. Most immediate problem, whether General Flores da Cunha really could start a revolution, Getulio Vargas seemed to have for the moment well in hand. The next, whether he should succeed himself or put in a proxy president to warm his chair for him next year, Brazil was anxiously waiting for him to decide...
Perhaps in the hope of getting some Good Neighborly advice, dapper Getulio Vargas last week announced that he was soon going to return the visit his friend Franklin Roosevelt paid him in Rio de Janeiro last year...