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me that if the "Ins" wanted to stir up a revolution they couldn't do more toward that end than they are doing. All the public buildings and railway stations are
plastered with Julio Prestes. There seemed
to be no other candidate. The first I heard of him was a newspaper front page slogan "Brazilians will not be slaves, cost what it may they will be free" - Getulio Vargas, who has arrived in Rio by airplane. In São Paulo I saw rows of small posters of Vargas and city cleaners scrubbing them down. The Outs, if defeated, can claim it wasn't a fair election. [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] Worse still the soldiers were parading about São Paulo and they are in evidence clear out here, as I never saw soldiers around in Brasil before.
Mr. Maxwell says there was a carload of soldiers on the train they came on, going further west. He says that men
are being drafted for military training. [I learned at Viçasa that the military training system of Brasil is worse than ours. [[/margin, blue pencil line]] [[underlined]] All [[/underlined]] high schools, mission, private,

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or state [[page torn missing words]] compulsory military training. Besides this there is a draft by lot of a certain number of young men (or boys, 18 I [[underlined]] think [[/underlined]] it is) each year. The boys that go to school get their military diplomas and are free of further training. For this reason many parents make every effort to send sons to school, "because the training in barracks is very bad for them." Those not  drafted are in luck. American missionaries are careful to register their children as Americans. They told me of an English boy born in Brasil (not registered) sent to England when a child, visiting Brasil as a man and being arrested for not
answering to draft. It doesn't seem as if Brasil keep track of [[underlined]] all [[/underlined]] male births as old Germany did for military purposes - all these swarming young ones born without benefit of clergy or do[[?]]
Apparently the number to be drafted each
year is not fixed - if additional men can
be drafted now. Since it was the [[underlined]] soldiers [[/underlined]] that got up the "revolution" in 1924 it