Word: salazarism
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...Antonio Salazar's life ticked away in a Lisbon clinic, his successor, Premier Marcello Caetano, was cautiously trying to revive the political life of Portugal that has been comatose for the past 40 years under Salazar...
...most startling move was permitting Dr. Mario Soares to return from exile. A lawyer and left-wing democrat, Soares was so persistent a foe of Dictator Salazar that he was jailed twelve times, mostly without trial or charges. His wife, Maria Barroso, one of Portugal's finest actresses, was dismissed from the national theater and could only perform with special government authorization. During his investigation of the mysterious 1965 murder of Humberto Delgado,* Soares publicly incriminated a member of the Portuguese secret police. Later, when Soares was unjustly suspected of feeding details to foreign newsmen about a teen...
Caetano's partisans at first explained that the peculiar circumstances of Soares' release were caused by "the ghost of Salazar. Caetano cannot publicly announce Soares' return as long as Salazar lives. It is a question of respect." Yet a week later, the news got through the press censorship, which has become more liberal, if erratically so. Last week-only five months late-the Portuguese public was told that the accused murderer of Martin Luther King had been hiding out in Lisbon for nine days in May. Newspapers were being bought in record numbers just for the unaccustomed...
Caetano, 62, is a Lisbon law professor and, like Salazar, he is conservative, correct and Catholic. As such, he is acceptable to Portugal's influential generals and businessmen. But in some respects, Caetano presents a sharp contrast to Salazar. He is married and has four grown children; the former Premier is a withdrawn, painfully austere bachelor. Salazar almost never journeyed beyond Portugal's borders and has equally circumscribed intellectual horizons; Caetano has traveled widely, speaks French, reads English and has a continuing interest in cultural and intellectual developments...
...first policy statement, the new Premier promised both fidelity to the Salazar legacy and a new direction for the nation's life. "The great danger for pupils is always to do no more than repeat their teacher," he said, "forgetting that a thought must be living if it is to be fruitful. Life is a constant adaptation." In defense of his teacher's leg acy, he began by reappointing all the important Ministers in Salazar's Cabinet to their old posts. And he reaffirmed his predecessor's basic policies of holding onto Portugal's colonies...