Word: carmona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President of the Republic: General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona...
...first time in Portugal's history its ruler last week visited her overseas empire. After calls at the tiny, off-Africa islands of Principe and Sao Tome, a steamer carrying Portuguese President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona steamed into the harbor of Loanda, largest city in Portugal's West African colony of Angola. But to the population of Angola the big news last week was not the official visit but the more important fact that in Lisbon tight-fisted Premier and Finance Minister Dr. Antonio Oliveira Salazar had finally loosened up and granted the neglected colony...
...Portuguese, the largest white population, built up a strong separatist movement among the natives. Therefore, harried Dr. Salazar concluded it was time "to show the natives of the colonies that Portugal is master of the land, that the flag flies over them with undiluted colors." Hence President Carmona's visit. To make the visit more joyful the Premier agreed to part with $7,000,000 of his prized funds...
...Germany, haggling to see whether Democracy or Naziism would bid the higher. Portuguese ports have been alternately infested with British and German warships on "goodwill missions." According to London dispatches last week, a major bargain has now finally been struck by Portuguese Dictator António Oscar de Fragoso Carmona not with Hitler but with Chamberlain. The Germans had offered to sell armaments to Portugal and make immediate deliveries, but on barter terms-Portugal would have had to pay promptly in goods. The British outbid the Germans by offering Portugal armaments on credit-the sort of "loan" to a useful...
...Spain's Government forces hard-pressed and cut off from Madrid. When some of these skipped over the frontier into Portugal, they were harshly driven back to be slaughtered. Perhaps they would have fared less hard had not the Lisbon Cabinet of Portuguese President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona just received assurances that Great Britain will come with culverins "in case of need...