PRESTES ECHOES KHRUSECHEV
During ea recent visit to Havana, Francisco Juliao made an extremely militant speech from which it can be concluded that tlis leader of the Brazilian peasantry, who is also a prominent figure in the left wing of the Brazilian Socialist party, now , envisages for the revolution in Brazil a pattern like that cf the. Cuban Revolution. Another prominent Brazilian radical visited Havana at the same time -- Luis Carlos Prestes, msin leader of the Comnunist party of Brazil, who stood not far from power at the close of VYorld Var II but chose not to struggle for it. Prestes spoke in Havana as it he were trying to refute Juliao. .
In an interview published in the Havana Communist party pub-
+t e lice: ion Toy Havea 9, Prestes is quoted as saying:
"Violent revolution is not necessarily the means te install com-unism in Brazil.
"There ere people who wrongly ‘think that the best support for Cuba would be the establishment of an armed struggle in Brazil to couse the downfall of the government.
"In the current situation in Brazil, this would be conpletely. false. A violent revolution would cut the Communists from the masses and lead the ‘Brazilian government to break relations with Cuba. t
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"According to the principles of Marx and Lenin, revolution is not synonomous with violence and profound governmental changes can be brought about without insurrection or civil war."
And if the revolution were to succeed and bring Prestes or Juliszo to power in Brasil?
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