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 evidenceletters, government records, police reportsthat 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...