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they continue to support Portugal, giving her arms and credits
v/hich they know are to be used against us.  Finally, there are
other countries which openly oppose our ideals and continue to
strengthen their relations with Portugal.  Foremost among these
is West Germany.  And it is precisely that alliance between West
Germany and Portugal v/hich v/e denounce today.
We know that West Germany v/ill not change her policy because of our
editorials.  But it is our duty to tell and explain to our people
all the problems related to our revolution, to tell v/ho are our
allies and v/ho are our enemies.  This is another way of fighting.
Bonn is today the only European capital which does not conceal her
support to the colonial war that the Portuguese government has
launched against the peoples of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea.
This alliance between the Portuguese and West German leaders has
a solid and ancient ideological basis, from v/hich come, as a
natural consequence, military, economic and cultural relations.
That common ideological basis is represented by the imperialistic
ambitions of the two governments and by overt or hidden adherence to the principles of fascism.
It is a well-known fact that for many years Salazar supported and
copied Hitler and Mussolini.  He created the PIDE on the model
of the Gestapo, the Legiao on the model of the S.S., the
organiza9ao corporative on the model of the corporative structure
of Mussolini.  Salazar intended to change the present Portuguese
national flag to one v/ith a cross imitating the swastika.  He
had pictures of himself and Mussolini over his desk and saluted
the people v/ith a stiff arm in the fascist manner. During the
Second World War, Salazar always collaborated closely with the
Nazis. Under cover of"neutrality", he furnished goods and raw
materials to the Nazis.  The Hitler victories were celebrated
in Portugal.  Those who sympathised v/ith Britain and the Allies
v/ore persecuted.  OnV when the military situation became unfavourable to Hitler v/ere Salazar and the Salazarists forced to
go over to the side of Great Britain.  Even so, when Hitler
died, Salazar decreed national mourning, and declared that the
groatest error Hitler had made had boon to lose the war.
Today, the revival of militarism in West Germany (whose army is
again the strongest in capitalist Europe) has redirected the
policy of Salazar to its traditional lines.  The military contacts, timid at first, soon resumed their old cordiality.  The
military chiefs began to exchange visits and to negotiate,
secretly at first.  In November 1962, the Foreign Minister of
Portugal denied energetically the news of the concession of
military bases in Portugal to the government of Bonn.  The
fascist newspapers claimed in large letterss  "A RUMOUR IS BELIED"