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Within six hours General Carmona had rallied a regiment to his support, marched through the streets of Lisbon to the Dictator's residence, arrested him, locked him up in the suburban Belem Palace...
...Still another man who ought to have been a Republican, but was not, "was the driver of the horse vehicle that took us out to the vast and over-ornate Church-Monastery of San Jerorymos at Belem. Passing a large, grim building, he said: 'The palace of the President of the Republic, once the Royal Palace.' 'Are you glad of the change?' we asked. 'I am not, he said quite positively...