BRAZIL: Comrades Exposed

The man Brazilian Communists hate the most is Carlos Lacerda, hard-driving editor of Rio's Tribuna da Imprensa, who has crusaded against the Red menace in Brazil since his days as a bright young columnist. Last week Lacerda was on another anti-Red crusade. Day after day he front-paged photostated evidence—letters, government records, police reports—that Brazil's foreign ministry is infested with Communists.

Listing names, dates and places, Lacerda cited four consuls, two chargés d'affaires and three home-office functionaries as Reds. The chief coddler of the Communists, Lacerda said, is Career Diplomat Orlando Leite...

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