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WAS THE SANTA MARIA DRAMA JUST A FLASH IN THE PAN --- OR WAS IT THE SPARK FOR A LARGE-SCALE REVOLUTION ?
World's oldest dictator
faces his challenger
THEY stand facing each other like two boxers before a world title fight. And they are about to do battle for a title, despite the 4,000 miles of Atlantic ocean between them.
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Presenting ... in one corner Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, the reigning champion, over thirty years undefeated dictator of Portugal.
In the other
General Prime Minister, Nominally he Humberto Delgado, the chal- is still Prime Minister. lenger. His stated alm, to beat Having go! power, Salazar Salazar and then to abolish the hos never used It except to dictatorship and establish hung on to it. democracy. So this should be fight to the finish, no stopping after fifteen rounds to tot up the points, no referee will be needed.
And the likely winner? Be- fore making 1 Toreenst should study form.
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This suggests that it will be up to Delgado to make the zun- ning. Salazar, after all, does hold the title, and he hus
By
SALAZAR-Undefeated for over 30 years.
Simon Kavanaugh
Portugal is
just where it was when Salazar gained con- trol over 30 years ago, and then the country was hundreds of
The
comes from the middle classes who are in a position to have ambitions but see little if any prospect of realising them.
atmosphere is still medieval.
Two years ago the middle classes did revolt.
The rising It is true that Salazar has tras put down but almost stabilised Portugal's economy gently, and avoided bankruptcy and
nothing to gain by taking risks, years behind the times.
And by nature Salazar is a spoiler. He is a master of the negative tuclics, That is why Be is the oldest established die- talor in the business. While others haves come, made their impact, and gone. Salazar has stayed the course, plodding on,
and on, and on.
The reins
He came to power in 1032, when Hitler had still to make his final grab for the reins of Germany. Salazar wanted to be every bit as absolute in his power an did Hiller, and suc- ceeded in this.
chaos that would surely have Shrewd
vertaken
Twenty-three conspirator
a country with no money in the exchequer. But by having an enormous weights of them army officers- this stability has been achieved of poverty
the keel were to keep
caught. Those found eveli.
guilty were given light BC1-
Even there
DELGADO-The Dictator's challenger.
and dancing girls. In action he the International Civil Aviation would shock his opponent by Organisation and cs Military suddenly turning o comersault Delegate to Mato. or throwing a punch from be- tween his knees.
He has also cat friends in the right places. He has been
organising credited with
the Azores air force bases and offering them to the Aliles while Sinzar sat on the neutralist fence.
General Delgado is a gimmick man. During that 1058 election ko starijed foreign correspon- dents by appearing before them wearing a pair of pearl-handled revolvers-both loaded.
In 1950 he sought political While Britatt and America Us l am in the Brazilian Em- are unlikely to offer Delgado bassy in Lisbon. There was no much active support it is sign- warrant out for his arrest, and Acant that degilte all the talk in view of the lenient way the of ensuring the safety of the Insurrectionists had been treat high seas and being bound to ed o recently it sormed most help an old ally, nothing was unlikely that Salazar would done to arrest the seized Santa errest Delgado.
Maria.
Easier
But he sought and was given nnylum. The publicity brought attention to the all-Salazar causo and clinched Delgado's leadership of it.
What ure the 54-year-old Exile in Brazil could have General's politics? It is easier aren the cause fizzle out. But to answer the question nega- the seizing of the Portuguese uvels. He not a left-wing Aner Santa Maria, probably the revolutionary. In fact when he biggest publicity stunt in his came to toru, prevented that from hap- leaders in 1959, the bour Party pening.
Morale
Dr Salazar, once destined for tences ranging from four to 20 a priesthood, has been described months. as benevolent dictator, By dictatorial standards
were suspended prob- by the shrewd Salazar who ubly is. He is fond of children realised that severity would and although a bachelor has breed
martyrs and intore adopted two daughters, In run- trouble. ning Portugal he adopts the celibolmasicly approach of The extent of the opposition knowing what is best.
to Salazar had been shown But unlike Hitler and other
few months before. A care-
As psychological warfare, OF dictators, Salazar seemingly had But seven miles from Lisbon fully arranged election did not just gamesmanship, such stunts 1111 further ambitions to use stands the 400-year-old fortress a quita
have their uses. Nothing like power. He has not, of of Coxacus. Within its
ns arranged, course, been in a position to stone walls lie men-the figure presidency. Admiral Americo back them? Or
By Salazar's representative for the upsetting the enemy's morale.
But has Delgado anything to make Portugal into a world has been put as high as 3,000 Tomas, won. power. But Salazar's dictator who do not
But 25 per cent Faney Dan-all show and Dereo with Dr
of the carefully selected elee solid dig?
that
ship has not extended Into even 疑 manifestation of Internal
power-aney uniforms, Im-
pressive parades and the rest
of the B Brother act.
He did not jump at the chance of power. I 1920
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military dictatorship had eslab
shed itself and discovered that they hnd to rua
the country with no money.
They called in the young pro- fessor of political economy al Coimbra University. Dr Antonio Salazar.
Salazar's policies.
Past record
Truc,
torate voted for the man who had put up against the Salazar Fegime - General Humberto Delgado.
son Bellish Labour
were careful to point out that he was not a Socialist and that be came at his own invitation,
Broadly, be 13 a progressive with an international Quilook. He points a scornful finger at conditions in Portugal and
in her African colonies, at the poverty, ai the undemocratle nature of the regime and at the is he just a Jock of education.
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Prst records show him to be a worthy centender. Ha is a distinguished militarist and air man with many decorations. He In the boxing worki So much for Salazar's past would be Flash
he war one of the military junta Delgado and that helped Salzar to power. record. What about current he would probably
enter the He has proved himself In form? Unlike many champions ring escorted by a brass band office as Portugal's delegate he has not become over-con- He la dent or complacent. now 72, but his figure is lean and wiry.
He is the son of an lun-keeper And 1
peasant woman. Hia mother's pensant outlook has been the stronger Influence in Salazar answered the call, but his life. He does not drink, is a stated bis own
kon-smoker terms, which
vegetarian. and a were refused. He went back to His training quarters Are university life and waited. The sparsely-furnished three-roomed next time the military men canto
flat next
the National was in surrender,
Assembly building,
Neither does Dr Salazar make He joined the government in the mistake of under-estimating 1028,
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and in 1032 became the opposition. In Portugal this
“WAKE UP AMERICA!
TIME
RUNNING
OUT!
He bosata that he stands for no polical party, but for jus tice, that he wants power not for himself but for the chance
to establish democracy.
But there is no doubt that Del- rado's specific ain is to depose Salazar,
He seems the one man likely to lo mucceed in this,
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