Brazil, under the pro-Allied rule of Franklin Roosevelt's good friend Getulio Vargas, has a postal censorship so rigid that almost any criticism of its Government is a criminal offense. According to a returning traveler, an American businessman recently wrote a letter lambasting Brazilian business practices. He was jailed, held incommunicado for three days, then sent home on a plane. Finally Ambassador Jefferson Caffery heard of the case, made representations.
The hurt Brazilians protested: "But this man is a Republican. We thought you wouldn't care what we did with him."
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