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Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
...years, continued chaos resolved itself into a government shakeup, and mild, aristocratic General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona became President. This besashed and epauletted figurehead (still President in name today) made Salazar Minister of Finance, with extraordinary powers, which he used to make himself dictator of the nation...
...Quiet Life. It is doubtful if Salazar likes either the salute or the slogan. Unlike all other modern dictators, he hates parades, pomp or cheers. When he rides to ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his handsome face with the Savonarola-hard mouth. Asked why he refused to respond to cheers, Salazar gave a characteristic answer: "I could not flatter the people without being a traitor to my own conscience. Our regime is popular but it is not a government of the masses, being neither influenced...
...Replying to President Roosevelt's assurances that the United Nations had no designs on their territory, Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco said he would avoid "anything which might disturb our relations in any of their aspects," and Portugal's President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona spoke of "unalterable and confident friendship...
Inspecting the growing garrison in the Azores (TIME, July 21), General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, Portugal's President, repeated that peaceful Portugal would, if necessary, fight for her Atlantic islands...