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Although Quadros has contradicted his supporters many times before, the leading U.S. expert on Brazil, former Ambassador John Moors Cabot, agrees that the U.S. must encourage Quadros to travel his own road. "Our problem," he says, "is to see Brazil through the present troubled period of transition. We may not like the fact that Brazil has adopted what President Quadros describes as an independent foreign policy and what we might describe as a neutralist one. We must consider the measures we contemplate from the viewpoint of whether they will tend to make Brazil independent and whether they will tend to make Brazil democratic and friendly."
Jânio Quadros puts it in Brazilian terms: "Through its immense size, its natural riches, and the dedicated efforts of its 70 million people. Brazil is now asserting itself as a great nation. We have created, without any doubt, man's most successful civilization in the tropics. All that my government seeks is to discipline our national development. We don't want to become merely another power involved in the world struggle. Instead we want to be a positive force, capable of contributing toward a real peace based on justice and respect for human rights."
*Kubitschek was constitutionally barred from succeeding himself.