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...Brazilians the most toothsome political news in their dictator-ruled country last week was the name of a new political party: União Democratica Nacional (National Democratic Union). So far, it was hardly more than a name; it had no tangible organization, no admitted leaders, no raidable headquarters. But Brazil was talking about it anyhow. It was whispered that political big shots were members of it. Clandestine literature was passed from hand to hand. Even in its present amorphous state, the party was a spark of light in Brazil's long political blackout...
Underground, in Madrid, was the Junta Suprema de Unión National. Its leading spirits were Communists. Its most visible members: the armed Spaniards of the French F.F.I...
...Argentine officers answered this description. But the idea spread, quickly crystallized into the GOU, an amorphous organization of officers below the rank of general. The letters mean Grupo de Oficiales Unidos (Group of United Officers), later idealized into Gobierno, Or den, Uni-dad (Government, Order, Unity). When the military revolution of June 4, 1943 knocked unpopular President Ramon Castillo out of power, the GOU took charge. It has since split up into factions. But Colonel Perón's influence with some of these groups is still the basis of his power...
...Long Wait. Now the Americans were getting a little equipment. They had got warm clothes for the winter, enough shoes, coveralls, gloves. Every man was above his last year's equipment of socks: one pair. But there was no time for uni form, few places to go if one had the time to polish his brass and set off to town...
...Mexico ambitious Diego Martínez-Barrio, last president of Spain's Republican Cortes, presided over a meeting of four factions: Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left), Unión Republicana, Catalána Esquerra (Catalan Left), Partido Nacionalista Basco (Basque Nationalists). Main agreement: that the last president of the Republican Cortes will decide when to re-establish the Republican Government in Spain. But absent from the meeting were the followers of Juan Negrín, Socialist last Premier of Republican Spain, now in England, as well as powerful other Socialist and Communist groups...