Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indignation swept restive Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, the powerful National Students' Union met angrily. Cried Byronic young Newsman Carlos Lacerda: "I accuse Getulio Vargas and Agamenon Magalhaes [new Minister of Justice] of the assassination of the student Democrito. Under the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas, youth has only one right, which is to die for its country. This it is doing in Italy. Youth comes to the streets today to demand another right: a Government which represents the people of Brazil. . . . And if this right is denied it, it still has, like the student of Recife, the right...
Once again freedom of the press put the dictator on the spot. Snorted Rio's Diario Carioca: "The 'Additional Act' is stillborn." Snapped former deputy Dario de Almeida Magalhaes: "The 'Additional Act' . . . Additional to what? ... To a constitution which doesn't exist!" Sneered sober old-line statesman Virgilio de Mello Franco: "All the fascism that can be maintained has been maintained...
...declared that a prime purpose of the conference was to line up "a solid bloc of votes" for the forthcoming world security conference in San Francisco. Alarmed shushes greeted this un-bagging of an unseemly cat, which was all the more noticeable since Minister Velloso had flown up from Rio with U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius...
...Brazil. He helped to put Vargas in power in the successful revolution of 1930. Later, Vargas appointed him commander of Brazil's Second Air Zone. Impeccably honest and inherently democratic, Air Chief Gomes later criticized the Vargas regime, was subsequently relieved of his field command, assigned to a Rio desk job. His candidacy is supported by most of Brazil's political "outs," the majority of the newspapers, 90% of the intelligentsia...
Candidate Gomes may well be supported by the followers of another Brazilian revolutionary hero, Communist Luis Carlos Prestes, who is now doing time in a Rio prison, charged with sedition and engineering a murder from his prison cell. Brazil's unorganized leftists (together with world liberals) have long agitated for Prestes' release on the ground that he is unjustly accused. Leftist backing is contingent on Gomes' 1) plumping for Soviet recognition, 2) guaranteeing amnesty for Prestes and other political prisoners...