Political Choices in Iberia

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Portugal has a new prime minister, Marcello Caetano, whose accession to the personal rather than ideologically determined dictatorship was orderly and unmarred by public protest. Caetano’s predecessor, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who was never a Nasser and still less a Tito, nonetheless shared with these and other leaders of countries which have broken with their monarchical pasts the critical problem of succession. In Spain the constitution provides for an eventual monarchical restoration—giving the Spanish royal house tangible hopes—but even here whether the heir presumptive will in fact succeed is uncertain. On this question depends the future of great numbers of people.

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LETTER FROM THE CONTINENT

Portugal has a new prime minister, Marcello Caetano, whose accession to the personal rather than ideologically determined dictatorship was orderly and unmarred by public protest. Caetano’s predecessor, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who was never a Nasser and still less a Tito, nonetheless shared with these and other leaders of countries which have broken with their monarchical pasts the critical problem of succession. In Spain the constitution provides for an eventual monarchical restoration—giving the Spanish royal house tangible hopes—but even here whether the heir presumptive will in fact succeed is uncertain. On this question depends the future of great numbers of people.