A leading Brazilian newspaper, Correio de Manha, today criticized the appointment by Governor Ademar de Barros of a former head of a pro-Nazi party here to the post of Education Minister of the Sao Paulo provincial government.
The former Nazi, Plinio Salgado, who headed the pro-fascist Integralist party before the Second World War, was named to the provincial Cabinet post in return for his political support in the recent election of Governor de Parros. During the war, Salgado had been forced to leave Brazil when he was charged with having maintained contact with the Hitler regime. When he was granted amnesty after the war, Salgado returned to Brazil and founded a new political movement.
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