Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona steamed into the harbor of Loanda, largest city in Portugal's West African colony of Angola. But to the population of Angola the big news last week was not the official visit but the more important fact that in Lisbon tight-fisted Premier and Finance Minister Dr. Antonio Oliveira Salazar had finally loosened up and granted the neglected colony $7,000,000 in relief funds. Although to Angola's 60,000 white and almost 3,000,000 native population this sum represented only $2.30 per head, it was nonetheless important since...
...between 1910 and 1926 the nation went through 18 revolutions, some 40 changes of government. Finally in 1926 the army took control, later set up a dictatorship. Prime force behind the present rule is Dr. Salazar, who is now Minister of Finance, War and Foreign Affairs as well as Premier...
...however, to live in hovels, to scrabble for a living with primitive implements. Discontent was widespread. Angolans appealed for funds from home. Finance Minister Salazar, resolute for balanced budgets, refused to listen. When Governor-designate of Angola, General Joao d'Almeida, three months ago asked for relief funds, Premier Salazar instead sent him into exile...
...separatist movement among the natives. Therefore, harried Dr. Salazar concluded it was time "to show the natives of the colonies that Portugal is master of the land, that the flag flies over them with undiluted colors." Hence President Carmona's visit. To make the visit more joyful the Premier agreed to part with $7,000,000 of his prized funds...
...aversion for the Soviet Union, plus his long standing resolve to draw Britain, Germany, France and Italy into a common accord at the first opportunity, made the inclusion or exclusion of Moscow from any pending Czechoslovak settlement the most difficult point in the discussions at Paris last week. French Premier Edouard Daladier, although his personal estimate of the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin is much the same as that of Neville Chamberlain, considers that Russia is potent and that France must have, in addition to Britain, another potent ally...