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Like most South American strongmen. President Vargas himself seized power by armed revolt in 1930, utilized the incipient Integralista movement to make himself virtual dictator six months ago. Ever since earnest U. S. liberals & radicals visiting Brazil have come out with reports that President Vargas himself was a Fascist. Dr. Vargas, on his part, has been moving heaven & earth to demonstrate to the democracies, particularly the U. S., that he was not emulating the European Fascist-Nazi regimes: He halted the deportation of German Jews, dissolved the Integralistas and appointed as his Foreign Minister the longtime friend of President Roosevelt, suave Oswaldo Aranha, former Ambassador at Washington. Last week the new Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S., Mario de Pimental Brandáo gleefully told Washington correspondents: "I have been denying . . . that the Brazilian Government was Fascist. Now you have proof that it is not." In the face of these assurances "Good Neighbor" President Roosevelt, guest of President Vargas on his 1936 South American tour, sent Brazil's strongman a personal message expressing "happiness"' over his survival.