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Having tolerated a little bit of democracy, Portugal's quiet strongman, Premier António de Oliveira Salazar, 69, decided that perhaps it was a dangerous thing. The crowds that came out to see the opposition candidate, Air Force General Humberto Delgado (who in the official count got 23% of the vote last month) had obviously indicated unrest after 26 years of Salazarism. Salazar described himself as "a man always prepared to quit, I will not say without disappointments but without disillusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Democracy Is So Inconvenient | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Admiral Ameérico Tomaés. But never before in Salazar's 26 years' rule had an opposition candidate - in the 30-day "freedom" period that Salazar theoretically grants before an election-been able to show how much unrest lies below the surface. Opposition Candidate Humberto Delgado, an air force general who promised to fire Salazar if elected, ran into familiar difficulties: 1) he was not allowed to speak in the city of Braga because he might "interfere" with an annual religious pilgrimage; 2) his Lisbon headquarters had the letter S (for Salazar) smeared on its walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Rites of Spring | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...candidates for this year's presidential election, scheduled for June 8, are Salazar's man, Admiral Americo Tomas, who is not even bothering to campaign, a left-wing lawyer named Arlindo Vicente, and the rule-breaking Humberto Delgado. An Air Force general who long and loyally served the regime ("A government of tyranny. I know. I was in it for 30 years"), Delgado, 52, spent the last five years in the U.S. as Portuguese Military Representative to NATO. His handshaking, baby-kissing tactics may result from his having witnessed two U.S. presidential elections, but his tubthumping, demagogic oratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Rule-Breaker | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Menace. General Humberto Delgado's old friends in the government now view him as "slightly mad" and "over-ambitious." Salazar's National Union Party, unable to pin the Communist label on a career officer, has instead called Delgado "a public menace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Rule-Breaker | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Delgado may surprise observers by still being around on election day. and still a candidate, but no one expects him to win the presidency. Yet a few fissures are showing this spring in the glacial calm that has usually characterized Portugal in the past quarter-century. Said a middle-aged Lisbon businessman: "I've always supported Salazar because he brought us peace and quiet, and I like peace. But these elections are completely different. I think people are getting tired, not of Salazar, but of the other fellows in his government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Rule-Breaker | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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