Word: salazarism
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Today, in semiretirement in Montreal, Henri Bourassa is still slim, still wiry. His old voice has cracked a little, but he is thoroughly unreconstructed. Last winter he advised French Canadians not to believe German atrocity stories, told them that only an alliance between Franco, Salazar, Petain and Mussolini would save the world from Communism...
...Beginning. Leasing the Azores did not yet mean war for Portugal. The day of the announcement that Allied ships had sailed in, Germany's Minister Baron Oswald von Hoyningen-Huene talked with Salazar for an hour, came out smiling. Berlin's reaction was formal: a protest, vague threats of retribution, nothing more. Portugal was a neutral no longer; she was a participant...
Last week this existence on borrowed time suddenly ended. Into the little harbors of Portugal's Azores, over 1,000 miles out in the Atlantic, British warships sailed to establish bases. To expectant Portuguese came an announcement from Dictator-Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar: Portugal, harking back to a treaty signed 570 years ago with Britain, had agreed to let the Allies use the Azores...
Absolute Belligerency? Now that he had half-stepped into World War II, Salazar might continue to dictate neutrality, but war could be dictated by greater powers...
...first three years of the war, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal's scholarly dictator, had to maintain a correctly meek attitude in the presence of saber-rattling Germany, dagger-rattling Italy, jack-knife-rattling Spain. Now Italy is knocked out, Spain is trying to scramble out from under, Germany's saber is busy parrying the slashes of Portugal's potential allies...