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On the Road to Tomorrow. Even more important for Brazil in the long run than Cafe Filho's economic program is the educational effect of his own character and his new kind of administration. Besides providing a conspicuous personal example of candor and integrity, Café Filho is giving Brazil a government that is opposed to nationalism and favoritism, that is trying to work out the country's problems instead of conjuring them away. Said a member of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies: "Café Filho is setting a much-needed example. He is proving that an honest man with common sense can be more useful to this country than a glamorous personality."
With little more than a year ahead of him, Café Filho cannot be expected to cover much distance. "I do not expect my administration to go down as a milestone in the history of Brazil," he said recently. "I shall be fully satisfied if it is remembered as a bridge to better times." And if Café Filho can hold the world's biggest republic in the direction he has set, his administration will indeed deserve to be written down as a serviceable bridge along the road to Brazil's splendid tomorrow.
*And pronounces (approximately) as Zho-wahn Kah-Jay Feel-yo. *'Six hundred thousand cruzeiros a year—$8,500 at the current free rate. *But after he became President, his first non-military caller was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Rio.