14.
We knew of the military alliance between Portugal and France.
News from Portugal tells us that there are French military advisers
in Lisbon, who, during the Algerian war, directed the operations
against the guerrilla war'of the Algerian people.  Now they are unemployed, and they are sent to Portugal to train the Portuguese
troops.
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2.  West German Colonies
The economic interests of West Germany in the Portuguese
colonies, especially Angola, are immense.  West Germany buys an
enormous quantity of raw materials at a very low price.  This
explains why the balance of trade of the Federal Republic of
Germany with Portugal has a deficit:  in 1964, total imports from
Angola .amounted to goods worth 95 million German marks.  Exports
to Angola were worth 47.3 million German marks.
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3.
"Krupp, an industrial organisation of Federal Germany, has
already invested one million, five hundred thousand contos (about
52 million dollars) in the exploitation of the iron mines of
Cassinga in Angola.  It is possible that Construction Promotion Ltd.
of London will also collaborate, Krupp announced."
(Diario de Mozambique, 21.6.65)
Therefore, it is Krupp who decides who will share with it
the exploitation of the Portuguese colonies!  There is no reason
to wonder:  economically, Angola, as well as the other Portuguese
colonies, are in fact West German colonies.
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4.
"Economists and businessmen from Portugal and Federal Germany
yesterday discussed ways to increase West German investments in
Portugal and her overseas territories at a meeting in Dusseldorf.
The spokesman for the Federation of German Industry, which organised
the conversations with the Federation of Portuguese Industries, said
that the discussions had also spotlighted ways of increasing
German imports from Portugal...."
(Tribuna, 15.5.65)
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5.  Luso-Rhodesian Committee
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"On the 24th of February, when a Commercial Agreement between
Portugal and Rhodesia was signed in.Salisbury, it was decided to
set up the Luso-Rhodesian Committee, the aim of which is to
strengthen relations between the two countries and to remove obstacles to the expansion of Luso-Rhodesian trade.  That Committee