Word: salazarism
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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...
...liner, carrying 950 passengers and crewmen, was seized as a protest against the Portuguese dictatorship of Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, according to a message radioed by Galvao to newspapers all over the world. It was "a political action foreseen in the international maritime laws," Galvao declared. This is his fourth attempt to overthrow Premier Salazar's government...
Remarking on the strange failure of United States, British, and Dutch efforts to locate the missing liner, Albion pointed out that "the other countries may not want to get mixed up in a revolutionary plot." Under international law the navies, called to Portugal's aid by Premier Salazar, may apprehend the ship only on the open seas. "We can do nothing if she moves into any nation's territorial waters," a U.S. Navy spokesman said last night...