PORTUGAL: Cinderella Colony

For the first time in Portugal's history its ruler last week visited her overseas empire. After calls at the tiny, off-Africa islands of Principe and Sao Tome, a steamer carrying Portuguese President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona steamed 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...

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