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...rabble-rousing labor leader, Brazil's João ("Jango") Goulart never hesitated to make political time with anticapitalist proclamations. "My only commitments are to the proletariat," he once said. As an opportunistic Vice President under Jânio Quadros, he toured Red China, heaping praise on Mao Tse-tung's regime as "an example that shows how people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." Last week Goulart, now Pres ident of Latin America's biggest and most important nation, arrived in Washington for a seven-day visit...
...seven months in office, Goulart cannot claim to have salvaged the situation. Yet as President, he has proved surprisingly moderate in his approach. U.S. businessmen in Brazil are reassured by his apparently genuine desire for free enterprise and foreign investment. And he also seems convinced of Brazil's desperate need for a leading role in the Alliance for Progress...
Senhor Joao Goulart suggested as much in Washington last week, when he expressed the hostility of many Brazilians to American notions that his country was so close to chaos as to seem a wholly unworthy investment to the Alliance for Progress. Where the notions came from it is easy to see. The wire services in particular have made far too much of a Governor's expropriation of a branch of the IT & T; they have said that Brazil's Northeast is on the brink of revolution. A recent article in the New Republic, besides stating that former President Kubtischek...
Washington Conversation (CBS, 12:30-12:55 p.m.). Correspondent Paul Niven interviews Brazil's President João Goulart...
...lack of national leadership has led to the rise of regional demagogues, who have grabbed headlines for personal political gain. Leading the parade is Leftist Governor Leonel Brizola of Rio Grande do Sul state, a brother-in-law of Goulart, who in January began inciting peasants to occupy privately owned plantations. Last month Brizola stirred an international storm (and sorely embarrassed Goulart, who is to visit the U.S. next month to ask for $589,200,000 in Alliance for Progress aid) with his seizure of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. subsidiary in his state. Cynically, Brizola is offering...