Word: salgado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his exile in Portugal, Führer Plinio Salgado advised Brazilians that now, as always, the Integralists believe in universal suffrage. Pointing toward the Dec. 2 presidential elections, Salgado urged his followers to bore into the existing political parties, form strategic blocks...
Although Chief Salgado so far disclaims any intention of reforming what was once a militant political body, opponents saw that a Christian Democratic Party embodying Integralist principles was on the way. Instead of the old slogan, "God, Country and Family," Integralist leaders would shout, "Christ and the Nation." And the propaganda organ would be a new and well-named weekly, Reaçâo Brasileira (Brazilian Reaction), edited by Pedro Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira, one of the followers of Nazi-loving ex-Police Chief Felinto Muller...
Liberal Brazilians, frightened by the modern Integralismo, rushed to deny Salgado's claim that he was never undemocratic. As evidence, they dug up a 1934 article: "Integralism denies the efficiency of the vote, denies the democratic conception of 'citizen,' condemns universal suffrage...
Brazil has begun to feel that she is in the war but not of it. When Aviation Minister Joaquim Pedro Salgado Jr. announced last week that the Brazilian Air Force had sunk its seventh U-boat, he symbolized Brazil's feeling. He said, by way of explanation for not waiting the customary 30 days to announce the sinking: "It is a great satisfaction to get part of our revenge at the scene of the brutal attacks which provoked a bitter hatred of the Axis throughout Brazil...