Word: salazarism
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...Beauty and order are inseparable." So Portugal's dour, scholarly Premier António de Oliveira Salazar is fond of saying. As a spangled religious procession wound through a Lisbon park, both these elements of his 14-year-old clerico-fascist regime were evident. Beauty was represented by the silken banners and swinging censers, order by the plainclothesmen of the dreaded P.V.D.E. (Police of Vigilance and Defense of the State...
...light by Lisbon standards: 25 days in jail and 100 escudos ($4) fine. But João's mother sobbed and bystanders growled as the boy collapsed on seeing Portuguese justice open a prison cell instead of a hospital ward. The Portuguese press rarely murmurs against the order Salazar has maintained for 14 years, but last week the Lisbon Diario de Lisboa reported João's case with obvious sympathy...
Temporary Embarrassment. In the Azores, the U.S. had another setback. Portugal's Dictator-Premier Salazar had been ready to sign a far-reaching agreement, but premature publicity embarrassed both him and the State Department. Last week Secretary Byrnes announced that the U.S.-built air base on Santa Maria island was being turned back to Portugal for peaceful development. The U.S. got a sop: temporary (18 months) transit rights. The State Department could base a hope on the French adage: "Nothing endures as long as the temporary...
Eerie. In Manila, Cart Driver Alejandro Salazar complained that a G.I. passenger got mad about something or other...
...extremes still dominated Europe's geographical edges. Franco in Spain and Salazar in Portugal were the precarious remnants of the Right. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania, all in the Russian sphere, had held elections on the one-slate Moscow model, and produced the expected results. But in most of the rest of Europe the Communists, aware that their day had not come, played a cagey game...