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ambiguous position.  They say they are in accord with our ideals, but on
the practical level they continue te support Portugal, giving her arms  o
and credits which 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 which we
denounce today.. \      .•; ,
We know that West Germany will not change her policy because of
our;editorials.  But it is our duty to explain to our.people all the problems related to our revolution, to tell them who are our allies and who
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
agginst the peoples of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea.  This alliance between the Portuguese and West German leaders has a solid apd ancient ideological basis from which 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 crganizacao corporativa
on the. model of the corporative structure of Mussolini.  Salazar intended
to change the present Portuguese national flag to one with a cross imitating the swastika.  He had pictures of himself and Mussolini over his desk
and saluted the people with 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 sympathized
with Britain and the Allies were persecuted.  Only when the military situation became unfavorable to Hitler were 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 greatest error
Hitler had made had been to lose the war.      . L..'-.
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 letters: " A RUMOR IS BELIED".  However, before
one year had passed, the rumor.became a reality.  In October, 1963, the
governments of Lisbon and Bonn confirmed the agreement, granting Bonn an
airport in the south of Portugal for training with' supersonic airplanes.