Word: salazarism
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Portugal's literacy rate is 50%, one of the lowest of Western countries-officially. But since those who can barely sign their names are counted as literate, the actual figure is much lower. Despite repeated promises, Salazar, a teacher himself, has achieved little or no improvement in Portuguese education. Teachers make $12-$16 a month; few schools have been built-but Salazar lavishes money on the preservation of public monuments...
...minority who can read are little better off than those who cannot. Contemporary-Portuguese literary efforts are scarcely worth the paper they are written on. Portuguese are kept in ignorance of some of the most important world news. Salazar will not let any paper print news about Russia or about Communist activity anywhere. No Portuguese paper mentioned the recent wave of strikes in the U.S. nor any other labor conflict. The United Nations is barely mentioned, because Portugal is not a member. Since there is sometimes courtesy, if not honor, among dictators, Salazar has permitted no mention of the controversy...
M.U.D.-Slinging. How do the people like their strait jackets? Few dictators ever know. Salazar found out last fall when he suddenly proclaimed freedom of the press and free elections for a new National Assembly. After a few days' hesitation, opposition groups which had scarcely suspected one another's existence came out of the underground. Two weeks after the proclamation, in a rented schoolroom on Lisbon's Rua do Bemformoso, the first meeting of the Movimento Unidade Democratica (M.U.D.) was held. Much to M.U.D.'s surprise, supporters poured in by the thousands. Every paper except...
...organize a campaign ; 2) refusal to open the voting registration books, long neglected by many Portuguese, who scorned controlled elections; and 3) warnings that, whatever the outcome at the polls, the new freedom would end on the day after the election. M.U.D. refused to play under those rules; only Salazar's candidates appeared on the ballots. German-trained political police pounced on opposition party headquarters, took recalcitrants to jail, snapped muzzles back on newspapers. 'Army officers who had enrolled in M.U.D. were demoted; "disloyal" students were flunked. Fear replaced brief hope as the country slipped lack into bitter...
...Little Priest. Other modern dictators had been men so evil that their personalities obscured the inherent evil of dictatorship. Franco was a barrack-room bully, Mussolini a strutting iiar, Hitler a ranting sadist, and Stalin a bloody-minded professor of the art of power. But Salazar was a virtuous man-selfless, intelligent, efficient. If despotism could be benevolent, Salazar's character was ideal material for "the good dictator." Born at Santa Comba Dao, not far from Europe's second oldest university, in a typical pink-walled Portuguese Village, he had made such good marks in grade school that...