![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Generally, the colonial governors anticipated hard times from interruptions to maritime transport. On the side of the colonised, this influence constituted a formative prelude to the beginning of anti-colonial protest in modern forms on that of the colonisers, it spurred the system to greater and more insistent exploitation of natural resources and African labour. Portugal's colonies remained intact, but the overall influence of the World War, though less of a nexus of change than it proved elsewhere in colonial Africa, can now be measured as one of various and in some ways profound effect. After those turning points the merest common sense ensured that Portugal's neutrality should be such as to prove acceptable to the western allies. Geographical realities allowed no decisive preference for the Axis powers before the great turning points of 1942: unlike Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal sent no troops to aid the Germans on its eastern front. ![]() Although modelled with local variations on the ideas and structures of Italian Fascism, and later stiffened by an admiration for German National-Socialism, Portugal's Estado Novo was constrained to neutrality during the Second World War. ![]()
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