Guessing at coffee policies

Abstract

São Paulo, February 15, 1933. – No regrets are expressed at the passing of the National Coffee Council, although Drs. Mucio and Roquete, ex members, are reported to have expressed “amazement”, and have betaken themselves to Bello Horizonte to confer with the President of Minas. Various newspapers comment, as far as they dare, on the development. The Jornal do Brasil, a Rio paper, throws out a guarded clue as to what the intentions of the present government may be, by stating that many people think a loan is to be obtained, secured by the export tax on coffee. Other newspapers feel it wiser to compliment the members of the government now in power, on their manner of carrying out the doctrines preached in the campaign of 1929, when the then government was soundly berated for the iniquity of interfering in trade matters._Paulista.