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Last week another shipload of troops sailed from Lisbon for the Azores, the third contingent that has gone there in the last three months. In Lisbon it was announced that Portugal's President, General Oscar de Fragosa Carmona, would also sail July 20 for a month's inspection tour of the Azores. Thus did Portugal serve notice that any U.S. attempt to occupy the islands as strategic outposts would be resisted...
Died. Dr. Julian Besteiro, 70, Socialist Speaker of the Spanish Cortes 1931-33 and last Foreign Minister of the Spanish Republican Government, who stayed behind in Madrid to surrender the city to the rebels; in Carmona prison, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for "prolonging...
...solemn Te Deum in the Lisbon Cathedral with the Knights of Malta in their scarlet tunics, Army and Navy officials in dress uniform, city fathers in robes of office, and the gold-braided Diplomatic Corps carefully arranged to keep belligerent envoys apart. President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona shared prominence in the Cathedral with General Francisco Jose Pinto, special envoy from onetime colony Brazil; Nicolas Franco, Spanish Ambassador and brother of El Caudillo, and British Ambassador Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby. To cheering mobs outside His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Gonc,alves Cerejeira read a Papal Bull dated 1179 recognizing...
...last king, an indoor sport who gave up all for Actress Gaby Deslys, was deposed in 1910 and after a short revolution a republic was proclaimed. Between 1910 and 1926, 40 Governments and 18 revolutions followed in rapid succession. Then the Army took control, placed General (now President) Carmona in power, and paved the way for the totalitarian Estado Novo under a tight-fisted dictator, Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
President of the Republic: General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona...