Word: lott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil's presidential election is still 14 months away but, as in the U.S., candidates are running and interest is high. In Rio de Janeiro last week, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott. 64, the Minister of War and standard bearer for President Juscelino Kubitschek's Social Democrats, hopped on the stump and drew howls from the opposition. Though the old soldier had just arrested a colonel for getting into politics, he himself appeared in uniform and armpit-deep in medals. The opposition wailed again when Kubitschek handed the powerful Ministries of Public Works and Justice-Interior...
Quadros' ploy neatly bracketed the position of his rival Lott, who is also backed by the Communists and came out against Brazilian-Soviet relations to forestall charges of making pacts with the Reds. Quadros fears no such label, can afford a play for increased trade. The idea was an immediate hit at home...
Quadros will sail home in September for a hero's welcome at the U.D.N. convention, then change to sloppy clothes and two-day beard and set out to improve his great following among Brazilian workers. Said he: "Marshal Lott is a distinguished patriot, but to become President it is also necessary to be popular." A recent poll in Brazil's 20 state capitals showed 72% for Quadros, 18% for Lott...
...blue-eyed grandson of English and Dutch immigrants, Lott would like to be President. He has a following of leftist nationalists who admire his pronouncements favoring land reform and the socialistic state oil monopoly. He himself is the sort of nationalist who opposes diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., wins conservative admiration as a stabilizing force, warmly admires the U.S. He is hoping to get the support of Kubitschek's Social Democrats...
...Lott runs a poor second in voter polls to Jánio Quadros, the shaggy reformer from São Paulo who recently accepted the nomination of the conservative National Democratic Union (TIME, March 9). If Lott stays out of the race, he will have the demanding job of keeping army tempers cool during the fiery heat of a Brazilian campaign. He frankly believes that "besides defense, the army has a great responsibility for national unity and social order...