DICTATOR OF PORTUGAL

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1926, Page 7

DICTATOR OF PORTUGAL

PATTERN OF MUSSOLWII. DA COSTA SPEAKS. WHAT LORD HAIG SAID. (By Cable.—Preis Association—Copyright.) (Receired 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 8. The Oporto correspondent of tbet ''Daily Mail" has interviewed General Manuel Gomez da Costa, the Dictator, I ■who commanded the army of Portugal in the Great "War. General da Costa said that he decided on proclaiming a dictatorship after a year's deliberations in -which hie saw the utter chaos that was a result of the in- j stability of political parties. Xo man I dare govern. It was every man for himself, thus impoverishing and corrupting ' Portugal. He meant to attain his goal at all costs. This was reform. He intended to model his dictatorship on the lines laid down by Signor Mussolini, the liberator of Italy. The Dictator said he would never I forget Field-Marshal Haig's words when j he said good-bye in Flanders: '-We may' yet hear of you doing something for Portugal within itself. I recommend you , to do it, as there seems sore need of a i leader there."—(A. and N.Z.) I