Word: salazarism
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Said uneasy Premier-Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, to explain the mobilization to his discontented people: "It may be necessary to reinforce the colonial garrisons*;. ... In the unfortunate times in which we are living, [the military] may have to be used against foreign enemies as much as against internal elements of national disintegration...
Less easy to guess was what was cooking between Franco and Portugal's philosophically antidemocratic, rabidly anti-Communist dictator, Dr. Antonio Salazar...
From Germany both nations have received a barrage of radio propaganda, magazines, newspapers and fifth columnists-and a spark for their dreams of empire. Franco's Hispanidad is carefully nurtured by Falangists in Latin America and an unknown number of active Franco supporters in the U.S. Salazar's hope is that the remnants of the Portuguese overseas empire (still the world's fifth largest), built up by 16th-Century adventurers, can be kept in Portuguese hands...
Disparities. A friendship pact in 1941 marked a new and closer liaison between Portugal and Spain. Since then frequent conferences between Franco and Salazar may have led to military understandings. Present at most of them has been Spain's gadabout Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer. But Portugal, besides relying on British sea power for protection of colonies in Africa, India and the South Seas, has had friendship and trade pacts with Britain since the 17th Century. The Portuguese have also watched Brazil, which broke from the mother country in 1823, move toward war against...
Coveted Bases. Among these ominous developments was held what was likely to prove one of history's most futile conversations. It took place in the warm winter mildness of Seville, between Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Portugal's Premier António de Oliveira Salazar. Doubtless they tried to solidify the one complete agreement between neutral Portugal and nonbelligerent, pro-Axis Spain. Both want to suffer as little damage as possible from the shocks and tremors of World War II. But Spain surrounds-and covets-the British fortress of Gibraltar, and Portugal's coastline...