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...will continue for the next four years to be Conservative Republican. Five-and-a-half months ago one José Pereira, hotheaded Republican state deputy in the Parahyba legislature, complained that sufficiently rich political plums were not falling into his lap, retired to his bailiwick, the mountainous city of Princeza on the Parahyba-Pernambuco frontier, and declared that Princeza and its surroundings were a new independent Brazilian state responsible only to the Federal government...
...environs of Poughkeepsie, the Federal Government and the U. S. Army would doubtless give him short shrift. But things are different in Brazil. Rebellious José Pereira has potent friends in Rio de Janeiro. Though over 500 rebels and Parahyba state police have been killed since February near Princeza, Federal troops have not been called out, nor has the State President of Pernambuco allowed State President Pessoa to bring his militia through Pernambuco territory to surround Rebel Pereira...
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