Two recent utterances made here against Fascism and anti-Semitism have won favorable reception in local Jewish circles.
Dr. Julio Prestes, former president of the State of Sao Paulo, declared upon his return from a tour abroad that Integralism (Brazil’s brand of Fascism) was entirely unnecessary in Brazil, although some justification for its existence in other countries might be found. Brazil, Senor Prestes said, had liberal traditions which would not brook either Fascism or Nazism.
Dr. Prestes is leader of the Conservative party, the government party until 1930. His followers are still numerous.
The second attack upon Fascism was made by Baptista Pereira, author and editor of a new weekly entitled Revista Brazileira, of which his son, Ruiz Baptista Pereira, is co-publisher. The magazine takes a friendly stand toward the Jews, and it is said that the publishers refused ten milreis (about 75 cents in American money) a line for the publication of Nazi propaganda.
Some time ago Baptista Pereira published a book which he called “Brazil and Anti-Semitism” and in which he endeavored to point out the danger of bringing anti-Jewishness into Brazil. The book has been translated into English and Yiddish, but no publisher for the Yiddish translation has as yet been found.
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