REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL

Evening Star, Issue 22804, 12 November 1937, Page 9

REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL

CHANCE IN CONSTITUTION TOTALITARIAN STATE ESTABLISHED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 11. News from Brazil indicates the suspension of constitutional privileges, the abolition of Federal State and municipal elective law-making bodies, and the establishment of a totalitarian State. The strictest censorship is preventing tho despatch of details, and even telephonic conversations between New York and Rio de Janeiro are rigidly supervised. It is indicated that the deepening economic crisis has reached a climax by the Government lifting the price control of coffee. Official circlets a.re extremely disi turbed by the establishment of totalitarianism in the largest Latin American country. STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT RIO DE JANEIRO, November 10. President Vargas, in a broadcast speech, said the new Constitution was made necessary because of political

turmoil and economic strain, which threatened to cause an armed revolution. He announced tho suspension of payments of debts abroad. CONCERN IN AMERICA NEW YORK, November 10. The Washington correspondent of the ‘ New York Times ’ says deep concern is felt owing to a fear that the movement will eventually spread to other Latin American countries. President Roosevelt has consistently discouraged the Fascist trend in South America, because the United States fears it may lead to a conflict similar to that in Spain,