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...morning last November President Getulio Vargas of Brazil sat down as usual to a dish of mamau (a Brazilian fruit that looks like cantaloupe), unfolded a newspaper with an expectant smile. It was the second anniversary of Brazil's Estado Novo-the semi-Fascist State that President Vargas created in 1937-and he looked forward to a paean of headlines in Brazil's press...
Slowly his smile faded. Getulio Vargas put down his spoon, opened one Rio de Janeiro paper after another, tossed each aside. In most, Year III of his Estado Novo began with no more than a few casual lines on page one. In some, it was buried deep inside. President Vargas' breakfast and his day were ruined...
Next week, on the 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Republic, every newspaper in Brazil celebrated with bold headlines. President Vargas understood. His country's press was still loyal to the Republic, cared not a snap for his Estado Novo...
Authoritarian though Brazil is, its Estado Novo has no political link with Italy's Stato Corporativo, Germany's Third Reich. When war started, with German agents swarming over the country, trying to buy up Brazilian papers to counteract Brazil's Allied sympathies, President Vargas clamped on the press a censorship as tight and thorough as Edouard Daladier's control of the French press...
...highly domesticated inhabitants shivered, caught colds, froze to death, were snowbound and frostbitten. London, Paris and Berlin reported the coldest December weather in 47, 61 and 80 years respectively. Worst cold was in Scandinavia and eastern Europe: Norway reported 25° below zero Fahrenheit. Poland 27, Russia 45, and Novo-Sibirsk, Siberia...