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Even before the swearing-in, the council had decreed the nationalization of Portugal's banks and insurance companies, which control more than half of the country's industries. Last week Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, who together with President Francisco da Costa Gomes remains at the head of the provisional coalition government, asked for the resignations of his 15-member Cabinet, banned three political parties that were accused of inciting violence and postponed elections for a constituent assembly until April...
Reactionary Adventures. As soon as the uprising erupted, the government rushed reinforcements into position around the presidential palace at Belem and the headquarters of the rightist Republican National Guard. Less than three hours after the aerial attack, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gongalves announced that the coup had been crushed. That night President Francisco da Costa Gomes denounced it as "a reactionary adventure" designed to disrupt the forthcoming elections and named his old friend, former President António de Spínola, 64, as its leader...
...well as members of the government, warned Spínola that the rally was a cover for a countercoup led by extreme right-wing forces loyal to the old regime. The plot, according to the government, called for the assassination of both Spínola and Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. The purported aim was to create chaos if not civil war, thus enabling the extreme right wing to seize power...
...English alike experienced a loss of faith in the old world. Strangely enough, the American attitude towards Europe in the post-war period seems to have been strongly influenced by a detached, outsider's view of the fighting, seen through ambulance windshields by drivers like E. E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Dashiell Hammett and Malcolm Cowley...
...since then as provisional President and has allowed an unprecedented measure of political freedom. Spinola's choice for Prime Minister after Palma Carlos' ouster had been conservative Defense Minister Lieut. Colonel Mario Firmino Miguel. Instead, the A.F.M. chose one of its own: an obscure army colonel, Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 53, a left-leaning officer-engineer and chief ideologist for the A.F.M. Later in the week, Spinola announced the new 16-member Cabinet. Though Spinola had never been an active member of the A.F.M., he was pushed into power by the group because of his great...