Rio's Communists blew their horns and the notes were echoed from the provinces. The Party had accomplishments to report and it seized an occasionthe 48th birthday of its magnetic leader, Luis Carlos Prestesto tell the world. Throughout Brazil, at dozens of picnics and other celebrations, the comrades sang such ideological lyrics as "Take off your shirt, Joe, the time of Fascism has passed."* They also saluted the past year's items of progress: 1) emergence as the Hemisphere's largest Communist Party (120,000 militant members); 2) collection of $600,000 for bigger Party newspapers; 3) pro-labor...
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