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...State of Parahyba is a mountainous oblong of land, almost three times as big as Belgium, on the eastern point of the bulge of Brazil. The late Joao Pessoa was more than its Governor. He was the defeated National Democrat (Liberal) candidate for Vice President of the United States of Brazil, brother of learned, esteemed Epitacio Da Silva Pessoa, onetime (1919-22) President of Brazil, now World Court judge. He was also distributor of all the political patronage in Parahyba...
Parahyba is heavily Liberal, but the Brazilian Federal government and most of the rest of Brazil's state governments are and 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...
...bellicose Republican boss should arise in upper New York state, defy Democratic Governor Roosevelt and attempt to make a 49th state out of the 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...
...German people were placed under a regime of "taxation without representation." Today Germany, Spain, Italy and Russia-all the Great Powers of Europe except France and Britain-are under some form of dictatorship. Of the three Great Powers of South America, Argentina and Chile have dictator-presidents, while Brazil is ruled by a coffee oligarchy. In Africa the King of Egypt and the Emperor of Abyssinia are dictators. Turkey, the only strong nation in the Near East, has her dictator Kemal Pasha. Apart from the U. S., Britain, France and Japan (which is a most democratic empire) there...
Appointed. Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, 30, rector of Grace EpiscopalChurch, Amherst, Mass., son of Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving of Baltimore, nephew of Bishops George Herbert Kinsolving of Texas and Lucien Lee Kinsolving of Brazil; to replace Bishop-elect Henry Knox Sherrill as rector of Trinity Church, Boston. (Trinity Church called Bishop-elect Sherrill when he was 32. Russell Henry Stafford became pastor of Trinity's neighbor. Old South Congregational, when...