Word: salazar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunt was planned and plotted by Portugal's Henrique Galvão, 65, soldier, playwright, pamphleteer. His object was to dramatize the wrongs wrought by Premier António Salazar, who is unquestionably a dictator, but a man so seemingly mild that even the most fervent libertarians have trouble working up any great indignation against his regime...
Disguised Doctor. Galvão had intimate knowledge of just how oppressive Salazar's rule can be. He served as inspector general of the African colony of Angola and irritated the dictator with a report denouncing Portuguese mistreatment of the Angolans. Jailed in Portugal, Galvão continued to write, and smuggle out, pamphlets attacking Salazar's rule. Sentenced to an additional twelve years' imprisonment, he feigned illness, was sent to a Lisbon hospital and walked out disguised as a doctor. Escaping Portugal, Galvão went first to the Argentine and turned up in Venezuela...
...would board ship pretending to be relatives and friends saying goodbye to passengers. Then they would remain as stowaways. With their eye on world-wide publicity, the junta urged a Caracas newspaper editor to send a reporter and photographer with them. Long accustomed to the pipe dreams of anti-Salazar exiles, the editor laughed them out of his office...
...flowery Portuguese, Galvão radioed his "first official communiqué to all democratic newspapers of the free world." Speaking in the name of "General Humberto Delgado, legally elected President of the Portuguese Republic, who has been fraudulently deprived of his rights by the Salazar administration," Galvão saluted the "oppressed peoples" of Portugal and Spain, swore he had received aid from no foreign government, and added that the capture of the Santa Maria marked the liberation of the first piece of Portuguese "territory...
...lived in exile in São Paulo, Brazil for the past two years. An air force general and longtime supporter of the regime, Delgado struck out for himself in 1958 when he broke all the rules by campaigning seriously for the presidency of Portugal in one of Salazar's mock elections. There were plenty of issues to campaign on. After 29 years of Salazar's glacial rule, literacy barely reaches 60%, the tuberculosis rate is almost double that of any other Western European country, and per capita income ranges from $100 to $199 a year...