Word: salazarism
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...Salazar has run his country for the past 24 years. Though "every citizen of this country has the opportunity to nominate himself or decide who deserves to represent him," Nasser said, there would be just one "National Union" ticket and Nasser would decide who went on it. Anybody who had been convicted by his Revolution Tribunal and courts as a "public enemy," and anybody who had been subject to such acts of "administrative custody" as being watched by the police could be, and last week was, "deprived of the exercise of his political rights" and could not stand for office...
...troubled world of the 20th century can boast no better-mannered or more enduring dictatorship than that of Portugal's ascetic, self-effacing Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. After about 21 years of would-be democracy, characterized largely by repeated bloodshed, revolution, and 40-odd changes of government, the Portuguese in 1932 were only too glad to turn their problems over to Dictator Salazar, who has been running the country with quiet efficiency and no organized opposition ever since. The rare eccentric who dares to raise his voice against the regime gets so little popular support that Salazar can afford...
This politeness was the keynote of the trial for treason in March 1953 of lean, handsome Playwright Henrique Galvao, a onetime captain in the Portuguese army whose loyal service in the cause of Salazar had earned him a high place in the nation's African colonial service. Few know precisely what brought about Galvao's downfall, beyond the fact that a series of charges laid by him against the colonial administration soon after he returned to Portugal to take a seat in the National Assembly led to the dismissal of one of Salazar's top colonial hands...
...Well-Plotted Dream. At his second trial (the first conviction was set aside by the Supreme Court), Salazar's prosecutors were models of tolerance and gallantry. They addressed the prisoner deferentially as "Your Excellency," and allowed his partisans to harangue the court with a revolutionary tirade well peppered with liberal quotes from Victor Hugo ("When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right...
...Endless Entr'acte. Soon afterward, political pamphlets attacking the Salazar government began filtering through the land. Connoisseurs easily recognized in them the stylistic mark of Galvão. As a result of the investigation that followed shortly, the director of Galvão's prison was dismissed and his assistant committed suicide. Due out of prison in October 1954, Galvão was arraigned again on charges of "abuse of the press and insults," and held without bail. Portugal waited breathlessly for the third act of the drama to begin, but somehow the curtain never went...