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...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...
Brooched Subject. In Piedade, Brazil, Pastor Francisco Antônio de Oliveira preached against feminine vanity and feminine adornments, was pelted with earrings and brooches...
Spain is still a dictatorship, but not so severely as it once was. It is more prosperous than it used to be-though still the poorest nation in Western Europe, outside its next-door neighbor Portugal, where a fellow dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, is Franco's only senior in office...
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...
...sounding. Probable result: Belgium will struggle along until everybody goes home from the Brussels Fair and then vote again. EURJ In Portugal the election was certain by its nature to be a landslide without any annoying democratic uncertainties. The winning presidential candidate was Dictator Antóonio de Oliveira Salazar's nominee, 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...