The new corporative dictatorship in Brazil has no anti-Semitic intentions, President Getulio Vargas declared yesterday in an interview with the United Press in Rio de Janeiro. He assured foreign Jews that they would continue to be welcomed to Brazil “without prejudice or preconception.”
“It is not the way of our people and neither is it characteristic of our political history to war on races,” President Vargas said. “Brazil will hospitably receive today, just as she received yesterday, all those seeking our soil, helping those representing elements for our progress but defending herself against those who show themselves to be undesirable for her national life.”
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