WI: Humberto Delgado becomes Portuguese president

[Loggerhead]

So, Humberto Delgado was something of a wildcard, a NATO general who ran in 1958 to be the president of Portugal. He was a big fan of the US and even wanted to reform the Portuguese empire into a federal state, called the United States of Portugal.

Now, the guy had a few problems. First, he was really REALLY pro America, so much so that the communists called him “general Coca Cola”. Second, guy also ran as a democratic candidate instead of with the dictatorship.

With odds stacked against him, how could he be president? Not by being elected, that’s for sure. He might’ve won if it was an honest election, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.

 

[Strategos' Risk]

Damn, Salazar did him dirty

Did Portugal's dictator Salazar order killing of rival?

Portugal marks the assassination of Gen Humberto Delgado, but was he murdered by secret police on the orders of the dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar?

www.bbc.com

Oh, wait, lol

He published an anti-democratic book, Da Pulhice do 'Homo Sapiens' in 1933, which attacked both the "crooks monarchy" and the "bandits republic" in his subtitle. Delgado wrote in praise of Adolf Hitler, who he considered as a genius and an example of human possibilities in the fields of politics, diplomacy, social organization and military, in 1941.[2] However, with time his sympathies leaned towards the Allies. He came to the Azores islands during World War II, by the occasion of the Portuguese-British Agreement.[3]

Humberto Delgado - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[LNSS]

Damn, Salazar did him dirty

Did Portugal's dictator Salazar order killing of rival?

Portugal marks the assassination of Gen Humberto Delgado, but was he murdered by secret police on the orders of the dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar?

www.bbc.com

Oh, wait, lol

He published an anti-democratic book, Da Pulhice do 'Homo Sapiens' in 1933, which attacked both the "crooks monarchy" and the "bandits republic" in his subtitle. Delgado wrote in praise of Adolf Hitler, who he considered as a genius and an example of human possibilities in the fields of politics, diplomacy, social organization and military, in 1941.[2] However, with time his sympathies leaned towards the Allies. He came to the Azores islands during World War II, by the occasion of the Portuguese-British Agreement.[3]

Humberto Delgado - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Never ask extremely pro-American European Cold War figures what they were doing during the 30s

 

[Loggerhead]

Never ask extremely pro-American European Cold War figures what they were doing during the 30s

Listen, I think he is a bit better than Salazar, all I’m saying. Didn’t Salazar have a picture of Hitler in his office?

 

[Loggerhead]

Alright, getting back to the discussion, how can we make him president of Portugal?