Word: salazar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What had Galváo hoped to accomplish by his seizure of the Santa Maria? In his own orotund phrasing, he declared: "We desired to prove, and we did prove, that Dictator Salazar is not invulnerable. We beat him and we ridiculed him-him and his navy-before the entire free and Christian world. Tomorrow, when and wherever we face him, we will beat him once more." What Galváo proposed for Portugal was "land for those who work it and a house for those who live in it. We will liquidate large landed estates as we will liquidate...
Delgado told large and tumultuous Portuguese crowds that he represented "the persecuted intellectuals, the abandoned artists, the technicians denied the possibility of giving their best, the muzzled journalists-in fact, all those who in other countries stand for a true level of culture!" The embarrassed Salazar government conceded that Delgado won 23% of the presidential vote and promptly fired him from his job as director of civil aeronautics. Loudly insisting he had actually won the election, Delgado hid out for three months in Lisbon's Brazilian embassy until he got a safe-conduct to leave the country...
Raisins & Wine. Portugal has not been the same since. Salazar's hard-working if often inept secret police keep stumbling on plots and conspiracies. In 1959 they thwarted a coup with the unlikely name of "Operation Cocktail" and rounded up 31 suspects, including nine army officers, a Catholic priest and several professional men. Last year the police pounced on another conspiracy in the African colony of Angola, and 46 persons were tried for treason...
...Lisbon, the Salazar government spluttered denunciations of the "wicked act committed by this gang of pirates," and likened it to "the barbarian practices that made the Caribbean Sea an area of dishonor, which took centuries to clean up." Panic-stricken that a similar fate might be in store for the Santa Maria's sister ship, the Vera Cruz, which was en route to Brazil, Lisbon rushed ten secret servicemen by plane to Rio de Janeiro with orders to allow no visitors aboard when the Vera Cruz docked. The Portuguese government appealed to the U.S. and Britain to recapture...
...action of one ship against another, and therefore could not apply to the Santa Maria. Though Portugal is a NATO member and a centuries-old ally of Britain, Washington and London shrank from the worldwide clamor that would ensue if these particular rebels were handed over to Dictator Salazar...