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Reports on censorship on press in six countries. Suspension of papers by the Ministry of Information of Portugal; Censorship of press by Spain's dictator, Francisco Franco; Restriction to publish dispatches by foreign correspondents and domestic newspapers are still subject to censorship by the Civil and Provincial Governments in India; Control over domestic media of communication in Soviet Union; Discussion of censorship of domestic press in Poland; Ownership of Chinese newspaper by the political party Kuomintang.

The article discusses the struggle of Portugal, considered as the first and the last great European empire, to obtain freedom from the totalitarian regime of Premier Marcello Caetano and establish a democratic government. It states that the move to eradicate the totalitarian government was led and controlled by army officers. It notes that the war had cost 40% of the nation's 1.3 billion-dollar annual budget, claimed the lives of 250 Portuguese troops and caused frustration in the army. It further cites the assurance of military junta to abolish eliminate the hated secret police and grant full civil liberties in the country.

The comment being made by many Portuguese on the re-election of 70-year-old Admiral Americo Tomas on July 25 for a new seven-year term of office as President was that his insistence on remaining in power could spring only from the naval tradition whereby the captain is expected to go down with his ship. Yet the tranquil facade of Portugal this past summer was such that the casual visitor could hardly have grasped the reasons for this sense of doom. The apathy of the Portuguese was partly caused by the re-election itself. When one reflects on the race between the various forces that make up Portuguese politics, fascism, capitalism, white separatism, racial supremacy on the one hand, and those of radicalism, African nationalism, liberalism, communism on the other, one wonders how long a regime embodied in a 76-year-old dictator can last.

On March 24, 1962, U.S. Senator Albert Gore made a speech in Middlebury, Vermont., that caused foreign lobbyists raise the fundamental question of how much of America's foreign policy is really being made by the people of the U.S. And how much is the result of foreign brainwashing, foreign pressure and even outright purchase. The Senator, speaking of the situation in Portuguese colonies under the dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, had made the seemingly mild and commonsense recommendation that the United States should re-examine its aid to Portugal to make certain it was not used to kill, punish or intimidate Africans.

The article discusses the Portuguese political crisis. Who the men were that shot down the Portuguese monarch and his elder son in the capital city of Lisbon on Saturday is not yet clearly known. That the murder was a political act, there can be little doubt. The first impulse to throw the responsibility on aliens, or anarchists, is comprehensible enough in the state of public mind induced by so horrible a tragedy. But the latest news, the formation of a new cabinet, shows that the events preceding it have been accepted as a political protest that must not pass unheeded.

The article presents information related to social and political issues of the world. A painful feature of news from Portugal is the wholesale expulsion of monks and nuns. That a strong anti-clerical feeling had long existed in the country was well known. Even the Ministry of King had its recent clash with the Vatican. It is comforting to hear that the rising generation of French-men cannot write their native tongue decently. One had supposed that slovenly writing was confined to people in the U.S. and in an offhand way had attributed it to the great influx of broken English to its shores. But the defect is apparently much more widespread and its cause lies deeper down.

The article reports and comments on current events in the news during the week of April 8, 1972. A number of items are covered including the testimony of Dita Beard, a lobbyists for International Telephone & Telegraph regarding the scandal involving that corporation and the Republican Party, government policy for the funding of public education and U.S. foreign aid to Portugal in return for military bases in the Azores.

Reveals the work done by the U.S. public relations firm Selvage & Lee Inc. to discredit the attempt of the Angolan people to free themselves from Portugal. Company that funded Selvage & Lee's public relations campaign; Challenge faced by Selvage & Lee concerning Protestant ministers; Role played by the newspaper "The Pittsburgh Courier," and its associate editor George S. Schuyler in the campaign; Contents of the memorandum sent by Selvage & Lee to NBC in connection to the Angolan revolt.

Presents news briefs related to various political issues from around the world. Statement that Great Britain, France and the U.S. supplemented the understanding for international protection of currency values with an agreement to control the movement of gold; End of the Arab strike in Palestine; Threat by the Soviet Union that if Italy, Germany and Portugal did not cease aiding the rebels, the country would consider the neutrality pact at an end.

Presents information on the political development in Lisbon, Portugal. Celebrations of political freedom and the multitude of political parties; Report that the press and the government are largely manned by Communists, Socialists and the Centrist Popular Democratic party; Conflicting between the Movement of the Armed Forces, the idealist majors and captains and general Antonio de Spinola; Demand of legalization of divorce by the Communist; Comments on the women's rights.

This article presents information related to political developments in the several countries. The U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has at last declared himself against the use of Federal offices to control political committees and pack political conventions. Past occurrences, however, are of less importance than future policy. It is not necessary to connect the capture of the English Labor party by the Socialists with the rioting at the workmen in Berlin or the unrest among the masses in Portugal. At the conference of the party at Hull a resolution that the organization declare as its "ultimate object" the "overthrow of the present system" was first voted down by 951,000 votes to 91,000.

The article discusses some recent political developments. With delightful inconsequence the Irish Nationalists have announced at Dublin, Ireland that they have decided to break off all relations with the English liberals, and to inaugurate a grand and harmonious movement for Home Rule. Motions to welcome back some nationalists were voted down by large majorities. Those able but perverse gentlemen have not submitted gracefully to the Irish Parliamentary machine, and so they must remain outside the breastworks. Americans have got out of the habit of thinking of Portugal as a country prone to revolutions. It would almost seem, too, as if King Carlos and his Prime Minister had also forgotten their national history. Otherwise, they could scarcely have expected that their attempt to govern without a Parliament would not provoke such bloody outbreaks as those in Lisbon, Portugal.

Beyond the question of the extent of the power exercised over territorial waters lies the more elementary question of the-extent of such waters themselves. Territorial waters may be defined from the land outward. Petty or inland canals and so-called non-navigable rivers do not enter the discussion at all, for the reason that they are completely, under the sovereignty of the state. For centuries, from about 1200 to 1650, the greatest menace to the freedom of the seas was the attempt on the part of Venice, of Portugal, and of Great Britain to include parts of the seas in their imperial domains.

This article focuses on the political conditions of Portugal. Premier Marcelo Caetano has made a mark in the thirteen months since he succeeded the stroke-crippled Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal's dictator for more than forty years. While Salazar lives on in the Premier's Sao Bento Palace, partially paralyzed land still thinking he is in power, Caetano sells himself as a nicer, warmer, more human national leader. To this end, the 63-year-old former college teacher applies all the modern propaganda skills at his command, from periodic fireside chats on television to highly advertised handshaking tours through the villages of metropolitan Portugal.

The elections have been on their way for a long time; people have talked of little else, even though public discussion of them has meant a certain amount of prudent glancing over the shoulder and switching to other subjects when particular individuals came within earshot. There is repression and repression; the sort practiced in Portugal is relatively benign, and certainly should not be equated with the treatment traditionally accorded the subjects of the neighboring state on its east. The average per capita yearly income in Portugal is $171and there are innumerable taxes which are collected at source.

If you glance at geographical map, Spain and Portugal look like Europe's gangplank. The gangplank is crowded with people whom fascism is squeezing out of Europe but who have not yet been able to obtain a ship and a visa for the free world across the water. For them, every day is a gamble; odd or even, red or black, seventeen or eighteen on the roulette wheel, the Nazis on a berth or on a vessel? Hundreds of them play their luck each night in the casino at Estoril. This casino is the last international. Where else does a German with a saber gash on his cheek sit elbow to elbow with an Englishman? When the West Point disgorged the German and Italian consuls into Portugal, high Nazi officials, led by Hans Dieckhoff, ex-ambassador at Washington, met them at the gangplank, and the next evening they flipped their chips at Estoril.

Focuses on the political support illegally received by the Spanish revolutionaries. Probability of Portugal refusing to follow the path of neutrality in the Spanish revolution; Report of a newspaper correspondent on military supplies being purchased for the revolution; Support of the revolution by Germany, Italy and Portugal; Need of a thorough and prompt investigation into the involvement of countries in the revolution who are supposed to remain neutral.

The article discusses the highlights of the ninth meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held in Lisbon, Portugal in 1952. American representative Dean Acheson and British representative Anthony Eden declared the meeting as a success. The integration of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg's armed forces into an international, one-uniform army was noted. The establishment of a NATO office in Paris, France was also mentioned.

The article reports that the Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portuguezes da Beira Alta, which operates more than 1,500 miles of railways in Portugal, has installed radio equipment on the express trains between Lisbon and Oporto.

The article discusses the leadership of Portugal President Antonio de Spinola particularly his effort to bring back the confidence of the country in the international level. It notes the move of Spinola to impose guidelines on pay raises for the unions and military control to cease the battling problems on strikes and work stoppages. A total press control was also inflicted so as to ease up the incidence of military work stoppages. It also mentions the country's economic drawback on inflation and tourism. Spinola warns for a resignation if the Armed Forces Movement will continue to protest.

The article reports on the nearing end of rule of Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar as a head injury he suffered in 1968 caused his paralysis and rendered him incapable to rule. It states that rightist factions or civilian technocrats are the ones which may possibly rule Portugal after the term of Salazar. It also says that law professor Marcello Caetano is most likely to become Salazar's successor.

The article focuses on the suppression of the American traditions by Massachusetts. Ex-Mayor Curley of Boston began the pastime of suppression by closing Ku Klux Klan halls on the pretext that fire, health, or building regulations had not been compiled with. Despite this dictum, however, the Old South Meeting House Association decided to hold a free-speech meeting of its own. Three young Portuguese in Fall River have meanwhile become the center of another free-speech controversy. Diamintino Texeira, Antonio Perreira, and Antonio da Costa are philosophical anarchists.

The article analyzes the financial and material improvement in Portugal. Reasons for the commercial significance of Portugal are cited. The measures taken by the government to balance its budget and give stability to the exchange value of the excudo and to fortify its financial position are highlighted. The contribution of the reconstruction and expansion of the road system to the country's prosperity is discussed. The implementation of an import tariff and creation of cork trusts are reported.

Conqueror Baron de Marbot was left starting for Spain. He had a presentiment that the next campaign would be a very hard one. As soon as he had crossed the Bidassoa River, Spain and France, he felt that all security was gone; he was a bearer of dispatches, and was escorted by gendarmes; he found on his way the corpse of an officer who was a bearer of dispatches from King Joseph to the Emperor, the famous Mina was in the neighborhood. He arrived safely, however, at Miranda, Spain on the Ebro River, Spain; but in the plains of Old Castile, Spain he was attacked by guerrillas, whom he repulsed successfully. The English had undertaken to defend Portugal, and this gave much importance to the fortress on the frontier, Ciudad Rodrigo. Massena besieged it, and it was taken by storm. Marbot fell ill during this siege; a high fever had seized him; he became delirious and was very near dying.

Examines key controversies pertaining to the political and military relations between allied countries, Portugal and the U.S. citing the benefits and limitations of American use of the Azores military base in Portugal. Indications of the Angolan and Goan crises on Portugal-U.S. relations; Issues on the provisions of the Treaty of Windsor which allowed advantages granted to Great Britain by Portugal to be extended to permit the use of the Azores base by the U.S. government; Consequences of U.S. support of the United Nation's condemnation of Portugal; Indications of defense policies, world politics and foreign relations.

The article reports that Portugal has regulated imports limiting them to items for industrial and economic progress. It notes that Portugal is included in the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) at its own request. It cites the reasons for Portugal's ban in free imports, such as spending spree on luxury items from the U.S. and its modernization.

The article reports on the approval of the European military stretchout at a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held in Lisbon, Potugal. It informs that NATO has approved German rearmament with a supranational European army. It tells that many member countries will slow down their military buildups after 1952. It also informs about the approval of Western Germany's membership in the European defense community by the Atlantic Pact members.

The article reports on the political condition in Portugal during the 1961 election week. It notes that the nation's air, naval and ground forces have been put on alert and the police has set up checkpoints in response to the reported coup planned by rebel Henrique Galvao against Prime Minister Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's regime. Moreover, it also mentions that many opposition leaders have been imprisoned after launching their campaign protesting the rule of Salazar.

The article discusses the efforts of Portugal to keep its colonies with a focus on the burning of St. John the Baptist fort in Dahomey and the pillaging of villages in Angola. It states that dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's plans of African reforms which can give way for independence of its colonies were countered by his plan to regain the disputed fort. It adds that Portugal's decision to hold on to its colonies borders on folly because it cannot finance its colonial wars.

Discusses the current political conditions around the world. Role of the U.S. in the act of piracy in international air space and the gangster behavior of the Algerian government in jailing a planeload of foreign citizens; Accusations of Congolese Ambassador Theodore Idzumbuir to the United Nations, that Belgium, Spain and Portugal are plotters against Congo's well-known order, peace, happiness and prosperity; Information on economic and political conditions in Nigeria with reference to the controversy related to the oil company Shell Oil Co.

Presents several economic and political developments around the world. Factors responsible for the demand for gold supply in the U.S.; Announcement made by the U.S. Federal Reserve on purchase of government securities; Information that the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee has released its report on the case of Povl Bang-Jensen, the Danish diplomat; Comment on the Belgrade Conference of neutral nations; Decision of Great Britain to seek membership in the Common Market in Europe; Announcement made by Portugal regarding important reforms for its African provinces of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea; Report on a survey conducted by the Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges to know opinions of students on Communism.

The article presents the reaction of Mozambicans following their partial liberation from years of Portuguese influence. It notes that Mozambicans are pleased at the pronouncements from Portugal, yet there is little indication of exuberance. It adds that the first 554 of prisoners locked up by the secret police for helping Mozambique Liberation Front were set free. It further comments that despite the positive attitude of Mozambicans there remains hard core resistance among wealthy whites to grant sudden concessions.