PORTUGAL'S DICTATOR.
Dr. Salazar, Prime Minister and Minister of War and Finance, who is acting as. President of Portugal while sixty-nine-year-old General Carmona is making his tour of Portugal's African colonies, is fifty, just a week or so younger than Hitler. T'he Portuguese bachelor dictator lives for his ideas and works long and hard. There is only a garden between his official home and his office, and walking from the one to the other is all the exercise lie takes as a rule during his long working day from six in the morning to one or two the next morning. His radio is his greatest relaxation, though his strong features and tall figure suggest a man of far greater physical activity. Before 1928, when he became Finance Minister, Dr. Salazar taught national economics at Coimbra University. He still lives on about £10 a week in three rooms of the Prime Minister's palace, which he has furnished in his own way. It was with difficulty that he was persuaded to move in at all from his own small flat. He has no social life outside 'his job.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 190, 14 August 1939, Page 6
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