Word: leal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the Lampoon, McCord was not at a loss for words. He replied: "Dear Mr. Griscom/ You are good/ Your Pax Vobiscum/ Is understood/ Your children three/ Will soon be scholars/ Till then your free/ No duns for dollars/ For even we'll/ Remember that/ It isn't leal/ To pass the hat/ Until your boy/ Has got his growth/ What then: O joy/ We'll get you both...
Since World War II a handful of Communists have bored their way into some of the highest places in the Brazilian armed forces. The Reds got one setback in March when President Getulio Vargas fired his War Minister, General Newton Estillac Leal, no Communist himself, but an ultranationalist who insisted that the army should not inquire into an officer's politics. Last week the Reds-and General Estillac Leal-got their lumps again...
...officers. Firmly entrenched in the club, the Communists had taken over its monthly magazine, Revista do Clube Militar, published made-in-Moscow editorials blasting the Korean campaign as "Wall Street imperialism" and U.N. troops as "butchers." And even after Vargas dismissed him as Brazil's War Minister, Estillac Leal still held his job as the club's president...
Finally, outraged anti-Communist officers in the Clube Militar united in a "Democratic Crusade" aimed at ousting Estillac Leal in the club's biennial election. To oppose him, they picked General Alcides Gonçalves Etchegoyen, 51, bull-necked chief of Rio's armored division. In a scorching campaign, Estillac Leal denounced his opponents as men who were plotting to give away Brazil's petroleum and mineral riches. Etchegoyen promised to "rid the club of totalitarian influences from left & right." On the appointed day last week, with most of the club's 16,003 members voting...
Last week 45 ranking officers, headed by Chief of Staff Alvaro Fiuza de Castro, called to pay holiday respects to War Minister General Newton Estilac Leal. In the exchange of compliments, General Fiuza took occasion to deplore "the sinister infiltrations . . . that are penetrating our armed forces." General Estilac, a leftist who has consistently refrained from getting tough with Communists in the army, answered that "unscrupulous agents of intrigue are trying to foment disunion and mutual distrust with unfounded, unpatriotic accusations impugning the honor of high government officials...