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Portuguese Premier Marcello Caetano arrived in London yesterday following two days of demonstrations by thousands protesting his visit in the wake of reports that his government's troops were committing genocide in Mozambique...
...Marcello Caetano, dictator of Portugal. Freedom fighters in the three African colonies of Portugal have been struggling for over a decade to rid the continent of the last vestiges of nineteenth-century-style imperialism. Caetano's government has used napalm and anti-personnel weapons against the revolutionaries. He seems to have learned some lessons from Number...
...only source of pride, and one of the few sources of stability for Premier Caetano's regime, is the African empire...
From these days comes the contention that the African territories are Portuguese because Portugal created them. "The Guinean, Angolan and Mozambican people lack national traditions," Premier Caetano says, "since it is only the Portuguese language and Portuguese sovereignty that confer personality and unity on them...
...ruling Portuguese see a special, limited role for the blacks in the development of Angola. As Premier Caetano himself expressed it, "The African needs the aid of the men who created and practice the techniques without which collective life nowadays is unthinkable. But the African societies must be built up fraternally by white and black together, where some will provide their experience and their technology, others the valid elements of their culture...