Word: salazarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remote little town of Ciudad Rodrigo, near the Spanish-Portuguese border, Franco talked for two days with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Salazar, emerged with a mutual declaration that the two countries consider the Iberian Peninsula "a strategic unity." In other words, Portugal, a NATO member, is telling the West that it cannot play its full part in West European defense without Spain...
...Portugal's Strongman Antonio Salazar did their joint best to brighten the conference. The flashiest of Salazar's honor troops turned out for the guests. Lampposts gleamed with fresh paint. As a final measure of thoughtfulness the government clapped the city's 400 beggars into jail for the duration of the conference. But what helped most was some smart advance diplomacy...
...third and only remaining candidate was General Higino Craveiro Lopes, 57-year-old airman and ex-leader of the green-shirted Portuguese Legion. He had been hand-picked for the presidency by Salazar, the austere former schoolteacher who has run Portugal with an iron hand in a velvet glove for 23 years. On Sunday, Portugal's voters duly trooped to the polls, cast their ballots for the unopposed presidential candidate, and in went Lopes...
...second was Admiral Manuel Carlos Meireles, who, though a right-winger, nevertheless spoke out in opposition to Dictator Antonio Salazar's one-man rule, demanded restoration of civil liberties, and end to graft. After assuring anti-Salazar factions that he would not quit the good fight, he withdrew his candidacy three days before election Sunday, and out went Meireles...
...years in the army, he decided the Portuguese were incapable of governing themselves, had some evidence: 18 revolutions between 1910, when the last King gave up everything for an actress, and 192-6, when Carmona himself took over after a successful coup. He kept getting re-elected because Premier Salazar, Portugal's dictator, permitted no opposition...