States' Wrongs

The United States of Brazil last month were given a new Constitution by their Dictator. Last week at a great open-air ceremony in Rio de Janeiro attended by Dictator-President Getulio Vargas, the Cabinet, highest army and navy officers and thousands of workers and schoolchildren, 20 Girl Scouts solemnly burned the flags of each of the 20 United States of Brazil upon an altar. Meanwhile the President had hoisted a large national flag. Simultaneously schoolchildren representing each of the 20 States hoisted 20 small national flags. Thus was symbolized the new Constitution's extinction of States' rights in Brazil, its centralization of authority at Rio.

Minas Geraes, the most populous Brazilian State, still retained this week its popular Governor Benedicto Valladares. By decrees last week President Vargas completed his work of kicking out the governors of the other 19 States, replacing each with a federal interventor. Ex-Governor Jose Antonio Flores da Cunha of the State of Rio Grande do Sul was ordered tried on charges of having ordered $1,000,000 worth of munitions from Germany, recently, apparently had hoped to use them to right what he considers States' wrongs.

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