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of Caetano's dictatorship. In the closing session of the Portuguese National Assembly at the end of I969, Colonel Sousa Meneses said that NATO installations on Portuguese soil, completed or under construction, were in the nature of £14,500,000 tov/ards which Portugal's own contribution v/as less than £1,500,000. He added that another £750,000 had been spent on scholarships and. scientific research of which Portugal's share was no more than £55? 000 e It must be borne in mind, however, that by no means all the foreign bases necessarily fall under the heading of 'NATO installations' even though held by NATO allies, and thus the total sums involved are undoubtedly far greater. Although the full extent of the value of and continued investments in these bases is not known, a glance at just a few of the figures available gives a good idea of the magnitude involved. During the six years 1951 - 1957 > the United States invested /. # 100 million in Lajes airbase (New York Times, 29 June, 1962).- In I965 it was reported that American installations and personnel were pouring #5 million per annum into the Azores economy alone. It is not known what the Portuguese get out of the British and French for their bases, or how much investments they are worth now, although as long ago as 19^5 the Portuguese received weapons worth approximately 04-5 million from the British in thc conditions of the treaty regarding their base. And the investment continues. For example, the recent establishment of the Polaris/.base entailed the large-scale'extension and deepening of the harbour o When the French Azores base was opened in I965 a 15 km road had to "be cut through rocks, the harbour of Santa Cruz had to be extended and a hydro-electric power plant had to be built« About 100 French experts are employed at the base. Under a military treaty of October 19S3> West Germany obtained its military base at Beja and a training centre for the army at Santa Margarida. A West German military journal describes the base as consisting of a huge airfield, hangars, v/orkshops, a hospital, barracks, pins living quarters for approximately 500 families> "Of an overall sum of approximately #40 million, Bonn is to contribute #3? million and Lisbon a little less .than £3 million". (Wehrkunde 1965). The journal also mentions a large air-force store near B'eja, a goods depot at Castilloes, the construction of repair shops, an emergency harbour and a communications centre. In exchange for this, West Germany is to assist Portugal in every way in the country's war efforts including the provision in Germany of extensive medical facilities for soldiers wounded in the colonial wars, the construction of hospitals in Portugal, the large-scale provision of arms, etc. It is obvious from the foregoing that apart from the actual installations themselves, Portugal gains as much, if not more, in exchange 45
Object Description
Title | Mozambique revolution, no. 42 (1970 Jan.-Mar.) |
Description | Contents: Comrade Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, 3rd February 1970 - 1st anniversary of the death of the president of FRELIMO (p. [1]); Editorial: One year ago... (p. 2); Tete / communiqué - FRELIMO (p. [5]); Military report (p. 7); Niassa Cabo Delgado (p. 12); A journalist in free Mozambique / Peter Spacek (p. 15); The Rome conference, June 1970 (p. 19); Dutch parliament condemns NATO support to Portugal (p. 22); Vladimir Ilich Lenin, 1860-1970 (p. 25); Imperialist conspiracy (p. [28B]); Africa on W. Germany - Far-sighted (p. 29); Open letter to the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany / FRELIMO (p. 30); U.S.A. - How far from intervention? (p. 33); Cahora Bassa * Barclays D.C.O. (p. 35); The mystery of Mr. Giscard d'Estaing safari (p. 38); NATO in the Portuguese colonies (p. 41); "Resolution on foreign policy" (p. 56A). |
Subject (lcsh) |
Nationalism -- Mozambique Self-determination, National Mozambique -- History Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1933-1974 |
Geographic Subject (Country) | Mozambique |
Geographic Subject (Continent) | Africa |
Geographic Coordinates | -18.6696821,35.5273480 |
Coverage date | 1969-10/1970-06 |
Creator | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) |
Publisher (of the Original Version) | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Department of Information |
Place of Publication (of the Origianal Version) | Dar Es Salaam, U.R. of Tanzania |
Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
Date issued | 1970-01/1970-03 |
Type |
texts images |
Format | 70 p. |
Format (aat) | newsletters |
Language | English |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Part of collection | Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965 |
Part of subcollection | Mozambique Collection |
Rights | The University of Southern California has licensed the rights to this material from the Aluka initiative of Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit Delaware corporation whose address is 151 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10021 |
Physical access | Original archive is at the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. |
Repository Name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
Repository Address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
Repository Email | specol@usc.edu |
Filename | CENPA-361 |
Description
Title | CENPA-361~54 |
Filename | CENPA-361~54.tiff |
Full text | of Caetano's dictatorship. In the closing session of the Portuguese National Assembly at the end of I969, Colonel Sousa Meneses said that NATO installations on Portuguese soil, completed or under construction, were in the nature of £14,500,000 tov/ards which Portugal's own contribution v/as less than £1,500,000. He added that another £750,000 had been spent on scholarships and. scientific research of which Portugal's share was no more than £55? 000 e It must be borne in mind, however, that by no means all the foreign bases necessarily fall under the heading of 'NATO installations' even though held by NATO allies, and thus the total sums involved are undoubtedly far greater. Although the full extent of the value of and continued investments in these bases is not known, a glance at just a few of the figures available gives a good idea of the magnitude involved. During the six years 1951 - 1957 > the United States invested /. # 100 million in Lajes airbase (New York Times, 29 June, 1962).- In I965 it was reported that American installations and personnel were pouring #5 million per annum into the Azores economy alone. It is not known what the Portuguese get out of the British and French for their bases, or how much investments they are worth now, although as long ago as 19^5 the Portuguese received weapons worth approximately 04-5 million from the British in thc conditions of the treaty regarding their base. And the investment continues. For example, the recent establishment of the Polaris/.base entailed the large-scale'extension and deepening of the harbour o When the French Azores base was opened in I965 a 15 km road had to "be cut through rocks, the harbour of Santa Cruz had to be extended and a hydro-electric power plant had to be built« About 100 French experts are employed at the base. Under a military treaty of October 19S3> West Germany obtained its military base at Beja and a training centre for the army at Santa Margarida. A West German military journal describes the base as consisting of a huge airfield, hangars, v/orkshops, a hospital, barracks, pins living quarters for approximately 500 families> "Of an overall sum of approximately #40 million, Bonn is to contribute #3? million and Lisbon a little less .than £3 million". (Wehrkunde 1965). The journal also mentions a large air-force store near B'eja, a goods depot at Castilloes, the construction of repair shops, an emergency harbour and a communications centre. In exchange for this, West Germany is to assist Portugal in every way in the country's war efforts including the provision in Germany of extensive medical facilities for soldiers wounded in the colonial wars, the construction of hospitals in Portugal, the large-scale provision of arms, etc. It is obvious from the foregoing that apart from the actual installations themselves, Portugal gains as much, if not more, in exchange 45 |
Archival file | Volume25/CENPA-361~54.tiff |