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...Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil's public affairs...
Last week most of the U.D.N. marched into Janio's camp, even though he has no links to the party. Leading was Publisher Carlos Lacerda, U.D.N.'s fiery Chamber of Deputies floor leader and long an enemy of Quadros (he once called Quadros "dirty inside...
...much as he once disliked Quadros, Lacerda dislikes President Juscelino Ku-bitschek and his Social Democratic Party (P.S.D.) more. When he learned that U.D.N. President Juracy Magalhaes was negotiating an alliance with Kubitschek's P.S.D. that would make Magalhaes President in 1960, Lacerda conferred with Quadros, bannerlined the news in his Tribuna da Imprensa: JANIO...
...into his wallet (see cut). It was enough to send Rio's nationalist press into tail spins. The normally staid Jornal do Brasil spread it seven columns across the front page, ran a caption implying that Kubitschek was pleading desperately with a sardonically grinning Dulles. Jeered Congressman Carlos Lacerda in his Tribuna da Imprensa: "Kubitschek, the President, rises respectfully to talk to Secretary Dulles in a language which cannot be understood. For it is the language of a subaltern speaking to a superior...
Just One More. Three days after it ran the picture, Jornal (but not Lacerda's Tribuna) grudgingly explained what really happened. Kubitschek was merely imploring the photographers to end their demands for "just one more," while a smiling, relaxed Dulles held a green Brazilian dispatch case containing the joint declaration they were about to sign...