Show 11 T THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON E W YORK president gerullo N NEW vargas of oj brazil was a tar far western frontiersman in his youth still wearing bom bachos or gaucho trousers pres vargas for informal dress handy with and quite in char S six ix shooter acter act pumping a six gun at the palace and putting down a graustark lan ian revolt A swarthy stocky little man quick on the draw he has never been gun shy and impromptu shooting has been an occasional obligate lo in his rise to supreme power when he established his totalitarian state on november 10 of last year there were those who said he was dealing in the dark of the moon with the green shirts that here was where germany and fascism sot got a toehold toe hold on this continent the green shirt revolt and its vigorous suppression by sr vargas seems to be an answer to that even it if he had not previously made it clear that his authoritarian state was not of the european model brazil has a complex racial makeup which provides no proscribed group or racial home talent myth the first re expert at qui rement ln in fas strong arm cl cist s t technique and furthermore when it comes to strong arm government all south american countries have plenty of home talent and indigenous skill sr vargas recruited his political following as a liberal he denounced monopoly and promised the overthrow of the coffee plantation kings ile he seized power in 1930 by the overthrow of president washington luiz with the aid of his lifetime friend old general aurelio anielio luiz had won the election against him but vargas raised a cry of fraud from the first he ruled partially by decree now entirely since the adoption of the denies all constitution of no rights of vember 10 his re free speech organization of the country fol lowed established dictatorial practice in the tor formation mation of labor syndicates the fixing ot of maximum and minimum wages and alid the denial of all rights of free press and tree free assemblage he Is a famous orator speaking a fluent and flowery portuguese using the radio a great deal in national appeals he Is credited with just about the shrewdest political intelligence in south america in his prairie town he attended a private college later enrolled in a military college but was diverted to the law his rise through minor offices to the national congress parallels the standard career chart of our congressional gress lonal record biographies district attorney state legislature and all the rest of it THE rhe make believe war in which L the eastern seaboard was defended fe against black expeditionary forces from overseas was the first large scale air forces forces workout work out of our defend 17 S flying fortresses in mock war under der a unified command major general frank M andrews running the show is one of the few flying generals he gathered up the strands of the unified service when the GHQ all air force which he commands moved into the huge air base basa at langley field march 1 1935 called the handsomest man in the service he Is quietly effective and the last man in the world to be called a swivel chair officer lie he warns the country against a shortage of liters filers and urges civilian training lie ile was not an A E F flier in 1934 he made the unusual jump from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general and was made a major gen eral in 1935 he was graduated from west point in 1908 and was with the cavalry on the mexican borderi border before he found his wings 0 consolidated news features service |