Word: salazarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazilian cruiser steamed into Lisbon harbor. Aboard was Brazil's Joao Cafe Filho, President of a onetime Portuguese colony that became a nation 100 times as big and seven times as populous as the motherland. Met at dockside by figurehead President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes and Strongman Oliveira Salazar, Café Filho began his state visit by riding through downtown Lisbon in an open car, along flag-decorated streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national colors cascaded downward, green from one side of the street, yellow from the other. The pace...
Died. General José Mendes Ribeiro Norton de Mattos, 88, leading light of Portugal's Liberal Party and bitter opponent of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar; after long illness; in Ponte do Lima, Portugal. In the 1949 presidential election, De Mattos became the first candidate ever to run in opposition to the Salazar regime, established in 1928. He later withdrew, charging unfair electoral practices...
India's nationalists served notice of a "peaceful" march on Goa in observance of India's Independence Day (Aug. 15). Portugal's scholarly strongman, President Salazar. countered by dispatching a frigate and more troops to reinforce his "Rome of the East...
Portugal's Salazar calls his country's three little colonies on the west coast of India "a small hearth of the spirit of the West in the East." Last week the hearth was flaring up dangerously. In the village of Dadrá, ten miles southeast of the town of Damão, Policeman A. P. Rozaerio was addressing 150 restive villagers on their duty to defend Portuguese sovereignty. Suddenly, a voice from the edge of the crowd shouted a demand that Rozaerio surrender the village to India. Rozaerio, aware that he had a fight on his hands, seized...
...would like to add a few remarks to your objective report on the Portuguese elections [Nov. 16]. Salazar is not an admirable man. His success lies in a simple method: he is benevolent to his big boys in their big business (a necessary evil, he thinks), uses much of the national revenue in the maintenance of the elements of the system's machinery-the army, the state police, censorship, the Catholic Church, the corporative agencies, the União National (Government's Party) and the propaganda bureaus. With a few hundred thousand collaborationists, dependent on the regime...