Word: salazar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Even at Portugal's long past zenith, the Portuguese were ruled rather than governed-mostly by men less shrewd than Salazar (who exacted a pretty escudo for war aid to the Allies...
Whoever wrote your penetrating and devastating analysis of Salazar's dictatorship gave a good boost to the cause of democracy. No dictator can be quite sure of his job while free men can wield such...
...they have never been masters of this land, and Salazar seems to think they never will be. He has said they were "excessively sentimental . . . have a horror of all discipline . . . lack continuity of effort and tenacity [but with] proper discipline and control, there is nothing they cannot be taught...
...Teacher Salazar is aware that there are other teachers with other ideas of discipline and control. He has recently said: "The world, weary and disillusioned, is sweeping half-measures from the political field . . . forming up clearly on the Right or on the Left." Salazar's own policies have encouraged both the disillusionment and the drift to the Right and Left extremes. Last month in Lisbon an old streetcar motorman, who earns $30 a month after 25 years' service, summed it up: "I ask only for the minimum to enable me and my family to live. Salazar gives...