WITCH-HUNT CONTINUES IN BRAZIL
The spirit of the late and unlamented Senator McCarthy now appears to be sweeping Brazil,
The trade unions have been converted into one of the main targets of the counterrevolution that smashed the Goulart government and seized power, Antildo Pascoal Viana, a member of the General Command of Labor, held in a Rio de Janeiro hospital after being arrested, died after "falling" from the fifth floor. The circoumstances of the labor leader's death were such | as to give grounds for the accusation of political murder,
Minister of War, General Arturo Costa e Silva announced that new measures will be taken against the trade-union leaders. He accused them of provoking "restlessness" in the working class.
The Directive Council of the Brazilia University and the Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies were ordered shut-down. .
At an exhibition held in Niteroi, according to the April 50 Prensa Latina, a captain of the army and several soldiers requisitioned a book of sociology after stating that it was Communist" because it had a red cover,
The Rio de Janeiro press reports ‘that the military authorities have confiscated and burned books of the .Brazilia University. Ultima Hora said that the books confiscated included those by the ‘encyclopedist Diderot.
Even anti-Communist booklets have ‘been included in the military index" because they have the hammer and sickle symbol on their covers,
The same paper adds that the majority of the Brazilia University professors have been arrested,
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