Word: salazarism
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...Option. In Salt Lake City, charged with failure to provide for his family, Felix E. Salazar was sentenced to 18 months in jail after he told the judge: "If I have to go to work now, I would rather go to prison and get it over with. What I would really like is a good job where you don't have to work hard...
Portuguese Dictator Salazar stubbornly held on to Goa, warned that there would be no transfer to sovereignty "by peaceful means," as Prime Minister Nehru suggested. The challenge was an embarrassment to Nehru, who constantly advises other countries to settle their differences by nonviolent means, and is reported to have boasted to Red China's Chou Enlai: "Watch how we get Goa without using force." This month, as India's Independence Day approached, in the absence of any better policy towards Goa, Nehru permitted his followers to try satyagraha again...
Communists Move In. When news of the shootings reached India, riots broke out and effigies of Salazar were hanged and burned. At this point, soul force was all but forgotten. Communists were in the forefront of the agitating, eager to cock a snoot at NATO partner Portugal. In Bombay, police fired on the rioters, wounding 85. The mob retaliated with stone-throwing, injuring 100, surged into the British High Commission building, smashed windows, manhandled the staff and demanded lowering of the Union Jack. Pakistan's office was also attacked, while 10,000 smashed up the Portuguese consulate and hoisted...
...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...