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From his banyan-shaded terrace, friendly, fleshy, Albano Oliveira, governor of Portugal's tiny colony of Macao, watched purple-sailed junks sailing in from nearby China. He recalled a passage written more than 200 years ago by an English visitor...
Last week, as the Red armies of China swept unopposed across the Pearl River Delta, chasing ragged anti-Communist forces toward the Macao line, Oliveira realized he must behave with greater circumspection than any governor before him. The gunfire of China's war was audible in the Portuguese colony. Through Porta do Cêrco, the massive, yellow brick border gate, poured panicky peasants and deserting Nationalist soldiers, clamoring for haven from the advancing Reds. Black sentries from Mozambique allowed them to pass, first stripping the deserters of weapons. By week's end, over Pak-sha-leang...
...Spain was also sounding out her chances of admission to the Atlantic pact. Three days after his Foreign Minister signed the pact in Washington, Portugal's dictator-and Spain's good neighbor- Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar declared that Spain's exclusion from the pact was a "geographical and strategical weakness" in the "Western front." *In the Security Council, Russia last week used her 30th veto to block the admission of Korea to U.N. membership...
Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
...Lisbon correspondent, Piero Saporiti, his wife, their belongings, and a lame dog, turned up in Paris a few weeks ago somewhat the worse for wear. They had been kicked out of Portugal because Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar disapproved of TIME's July 22nd cover story about himself and his regime...