SALAZAR IN PORTUGAL

by Christine Garnier ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

An Intimate Portrait, this has been written by a young French writer who on the strength of her publisher's backing, went down to Lisbon to interview Salazar for the purpose of writing this book. After difficulty she got her first interview, thought it was the last and then, with great good fortune, was invited by Salazar to visit his home town, Vimi, return to Lisbon and then to go with him to his quinta near Vimieiro for an even more prolonged stay. From these personal contacts with Portugal's austere prime minister, Mademoiselle Garnier gives us some colorful passages about the quiet man whom his country and the rest of the world know so little. Rather than the politician, here is Salazar the man of everyday- as he eats, as he reflects on the good and bed opinions people have of him, and as he talks quietly to the author of his own thoughts on religion, education, the position of women, art, and the problems of state. Though the picture that emerges is favorable and Salazar is given credit for Portugal's economic stability and for predicting the need of a N.A.T.O. before it was formed, the question of his dictatorship is an open one and Mademoiselle Garnier's book leaves us with the thought that after all, Portugal may still be in a ""great sleep"" rather than a ""great calm"".

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Young

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION