A truckload of some 30 Integralistas, the famed Brazilian Green Shirts who salute like Italian Fascists and are as anti-Semitic as German Nazis, rolled through the quiet streets of Rio de Janeiro just after midnight one night last week. They jarred to a halt at the main entrance to stately Guanabara Palace, once the home of Brazil's Crown Princess Isabella and now the residence of President Getulio Dornelles Vargas and family. It was the usual hour for the changing of the guard. With knowing nods the sailors on duty, in conspiracy with...
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