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...chipped the palace walls." For three-and-a-half anxious hours President Vargas and his defenders held out. Finally War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra, a bullet through his ear, arrived, leading a detachment .of the regular army and attacked the Integralistas from the rear. Rio Grande do Sul Interventor Colonel Oswaldo Cordeiro de Faria, who had been busy battling attackers at his home, appeared still clad in his pajamas at the head of a company of police, civilians and soldiers. They bottled up the Green Shirts with a flanking movement. Thirty Integralistas were captured, eight lay dead...
Minas Geraes, the most populous Brazilian State, still retained this week its popular Governor Benedicto Valladares. By decrees last week President Vargas completed his work of kicking out the governors of the other 19 States, replacing each with a federal interventor. Ex-Governor José Antonio Flores da Cunha of the State of Rio Grande do Sul was ordered tried on charges of having ordered $1,000,000 worth of munitions from Germany, recently, apparently had hoped to use them to right what he considers States' wrongs...
...Presidential candidate squint-eyed José Americo de Almeida (TIME, June 14). But big Brazil reacted unexpectedly to this news. Commotion broke out in the Rio Grande do Sul bailiwick of swashbuckling Governor José Flores da Cunha, whom President Vargas had to replace with a Federal military interventor. A temporary lifting of the state of war for campaign purposes soon had Brazil's Leftists noisily at the throat of Brazil's green-shirted Fascist Integralistas, whose leader Plinio Salgado wears a Hitler mustache and advocates in misty Portuguese a "corporative State." Last fortnight more serious trouble appeared...
...with their wailing. When Mr. Hart walked out he was cheered for five minutes. Said the loyal employes' spokesman, Secretary Pablo Martinez of the Telephone Workers Union: "Under no circumstances will the present workers agree to the return of the strikers." He then asked his followers to give Interventor Montoulieu a chance, assured them "If the Government's management proves unsatisfactory we can easily retaliate by paralyzing telephone service throughout Cuba." Said the Interventor: "I will employ common sense. This matter must be settled amicably between Cubans." Suspicious that the Government might intend to lock them...
...control of U. S. investments in Cuba, but they congratulated ex-Manager Hart on a fat document he had obtained before resigning. In this the Cuban Government assumes liability for damages to the equipment of Cuban Telephone which may occur under its management. Telephone officials said that Interventor Montoulieu will soon find out that Cuban Telephone is not taking in enough money to meet its payroll. They added smugly that the operating deficit has thus far been met by funds which I. T. & T. has paid periodically from Manhattan, will now stop paying with alacrity. Said ex-Manager Hart...