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Hector obediently bided his time, called almost every evening through the years at the McLaughlin mansion on Doctor Delgado Street. For his share of the family fortune, Hector got a monopoly on peanut oil, and with the aid of prohibitive tariffs on other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth faded, he developed modest hobbies : collecting fine horses at his Engombe Ranch outside Ciudad Trujillo, collecting shoes (he has more than 200 pairs). The dictator tapped him for the presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power...
Things have gone so far that the feeble opposition party, a band of quarreling liberal septuagenarians united briefly last year under General Humberto Delgado (now in Brazilian exile), recently asked official permission to hold a congress to select an "alternate" government should one be needed soon. Salazar refused their request and went before television cameras at week's end to insist that the great mass of the Portuguese people are behind him. But reports of his imminent departure persisted. If he is really bent on getting out, he would want to hand-pick his successor. Likely candidates: respected...
...Cocktail," and the people behind it, said the minister, included all classes and were all "most confused." Among those arrested: a priest, nine army officers, 22 civilians. Behind this threat to the 27-year dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, police also saw the features of flamboyant General Humberto Delgado, who in last year's election got a surprising 23% of the votes, even with Salazar's men counting the ballots...
From Rio de Janeiro, where he is living in modest circumstances but lionized by Brazilian intellectuals, Delgado told a TIME correspondent: "It was a small affair, but it frightened the Salazar government to death. I suppose they intended to take over some key points, call on me to abolish the dictatorship. Salazar's Gestapo caught on "to plans because too many people were involved-40 or 50. You Americans don't understand the situation in Portugal. It's a police state under very tight control...
...scene was a little overdramatic, but then, dictators must take no chances. The man whisked out of Portugal to asylum in Brazil was Premier António de Oliveira Salazar's biggest problem-Humberto Delgado, a balding Portuguese general-turned-politician, who had spent the past three months in petulant, self-imposed exile in Brazil's Lisbon embassy. Running for the ceremonial office of President last year against a candidate backed by Salazar, in a land where the press is not free and Salazar's men count the votes, Delgado polled almost one-fourth of the votes...