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...nobody's surprise, greying Roberto Cochrane Simonsen joined his fellow Senators last week in voting to oust Communists from public office.* An influential member of anti-Communist President Dutra's party, he barely won his seat last January over Communist Candido Portinari, Brazil's greatest painter. His own anti-Red views are well known. Besides, Industrialist-Economist Simonsen is a top-rank spokesman for São Paulo's bustling industry, and Communists are bad for business...
...Critic. Not so predictable was Simonsen's criticism last fortnight of the Marshall Plan. But he was being consistent. The Marshall Plan, he fears, will be bad for Brazilian business as well as for Europe's Communists. His reasoning, as he laid it down to the Inter-American Council of Production and Commerce at Petrópolis: if Latin America must increase its exports of raw materials and foodstuffs to Europe by 30 to 50% in the next four years, as the plan calls for, another "war economy" will develop. Then workers will be drawn from industry into...
Snappy Answer. In Salt Lake City, Traffic Cop J. H. Simonsen asked a woman driver why she was veering all over the place, for reply was handed the snapped-off steering wheel...