Word: oliveira
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portugal, which has not had a real election for 20 years, held another mock ballot this week. Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's ticket won a unanimous victory. The opposition, protesting that registration lists were rigged, abstained from voting...
Last week this existence on borrowed time suddenly ended. Into the little harbors of Portugal's Azores, over 1,000 miles out in the Atlantic, British warships sailed to establish bases. To expectant Portuguese came an announcement from Dictator-Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar: Portugal, harking back to a treaty signed 570 years ago with Britain, had agreed to let the Allies use the Azores...
...first three years of the war, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal's scholarly dictator, had to maintain a correctly meek attitude in the presence of saber-rattling Germany, dagger-rattling Italy, jack-knife-rattling Spain. Now Italy is knocked out, Spain is trying to scramble out from under, Germany's saber is busy parrying the slashes of Portugal's potential allies...
Said uneasy Premier-Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, to explain the mobilization to his discontented people: "It may be necessary to reinforce the colonial garrisons*;. ... In the unfortunate times in which we are living, [the military] may have to be used against foreign enemies as much as against internal elements of national disintegration...
...small but smartly trained air force. The general staff (see cut) includes Deputy Chief of Staff Colonel Carlos Brazil, Colonel Vasco Secco of the Joint Brazil-U.S. Air Commission, Lieut. Colonel Raimundo Aboim, Lieut. Colonel Loyla Daher, Lieut. Colonel Carlos Coelho and Aviation Major Adil de Oliveira. The navy was augmented by six warships, built in Brazilian shipyards for Great Britain and now returned by Britain to its new ally. To help Brazil tune up its war program, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery returned to Rio from a vacation in the U.S. with prospective solutions for prickly Brazilian problems...