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...Brazilian Communists hate the most is Carlos Lacerda, hard-driving editor of Rio's Tribuna da Imprensa, who has crusaded against the Red menace in Brazil since his days as a bright young columnist. Last week Lacerda was on another anti-Red crusade. Day after day he front-paged photostated evidence-letters, government records, police reports-that Brazil's foreign ministry is infested with Communists...
Listing names, dates and places, Lacerda cited four consuls, two chargés d'affaires and three home-office functionaries as Reds. The chief coddler of the Communists, Lacerda said, is Career Diplomat Orlando Leite Ribeiro, "a personal friend of Communist Leader Luis Carlos Pres-tes." After Leite Ribeiro became head of the foreign ministry's administration department in 1951, charged Tribuna, Reds were brought into the ministry and Reds already in the foreign service got remarkable promotions. Items: A woman Communist was hired as a code clerk in the home office, where she is in position...
...only one of the nine named as Reds has answered Lacerda's accusations, and that one got a quick comeuppance. Normelio Ramos, an official in the ministry's economic division, wrote a letter stating flatly that he was "not connected with the Communist Party." Lacerda printed the letter along with a reply: "In 1945 Normelio Ramos was enrolled in a Communist cell . . . His registration for the presidential election of 1945 was as a Communist Party member under the number 5/420. If he wants further details, let him give us a power of attorney so that we can obtain...
Brazil's government is hostile to Lacerda, who has thrown verbal punches at many a government bigwig, from President Getulio Vargas down. But his reports were too well documented to be ignored. The foreign ministry replaced the charge d'affaires in El Salvador, recalled an accused consul from London, announced that a three-man commission would be formed to look into Lacerda's allegations...
...column of comment on the story, Editor Lacerda wrote: "On the day on which Perón announced the discovery of this scientist, we stated we thought he was lying, but we never thought Perón himself was being fooled. General Perón, it turns out, was the otario [sucker] . . . Thus closes in international ridicule a chapter which Charlie Chaplin could well have used in his satire, 'The Great Dictator...