Word: salazarism
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...into the harbor of Loanda, largest city in Portugal's West African colony of Angola. But to the population of Angola the big news last week was not the official visit but the more important fact that in Lisbon tight-fisted Premier and Finance Minister Dr. Antonio Oliveira Salazar had finally loosened up and granted the neglected colony $7,000,000 in relief funds. Although to Angola's 60,000 white and almost 3,000,000 native population this sum represented only $2.30 per head, it was nonetheless important since it was the first sizable Portuguese grant...
...mess. With two exceptions, budgets were unbalanced for three-quarters of a century and between 1910 and 1926 the nation went through 18 revolutions, some 40 changes of government. Finally in 1926 the army took control, later set up a dictatorship. Prime force behind the present rule is Dr. Salazar, who is now Minister of Finance, War and Foreign Affairs as well as Premier...
Under Dr. Salazar's tutelage Angola, beginning in 1930, for the first time made exports exceed her imports. The underprivileged population continued, however, to live in hovels, to scrabble for a living with primitive implements. Discontent was widespread. Angolans appealed for funds from home. Finance Minister Salazar, resolute for balanced budgets, refused to listen. When Governor-designate of Angola, General Joao d'Almeida, three months ago asked for relief funds, Premier Salazar instead sent him into exile...
Dictator & King. Grimly silent was Portuguese Dictator Salazar this week. Portugal has been supplying Rightist Spain and her German ally, and the Dictator showed every sign of feeling that he can sit tight on the question of Angola. No dictator is King Leopold of the Belgians. Announced his Foreign Minister Spaak: "Should the question arise, Belgium is prepared to defend the colony (Belgian Congo) with all the means within our power. From London we learn that the British viewpoint would never admit an accord detrimental to other countries...
...allowed to place an order that would interfere with her deliveries. Since Britain has the least interest of the three in Leftist Spain, and since Portugal is her oldest international friend (of some 600 years standing), this possibility lacked considerable plausibility, except in one particular. When Dictator Salazar withdrew his minister from Prague he entrusted Portuguese interests in Spain not to the British but to the Italian legation...