TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Grocer meets Butcher'
T2 - Marcello Caetano's London Visit of 1973 and the Last Days of Portugal's Estado Novo
AU - MacQueen, Norrie
AU - Oliveira, Pedro Aires
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The visit of the Portuguese premier Marcelo Caetano to London in July 1973 failed to boost Portugal's international respectability. Instead, despite the qualified sympathy of the British Conservative government, the visit highlighted Lisbon's isolation from the realities of the cold war and dtente. Public protests punctuated the visit, and the gulf between the attitudes of the main British political parties to Portugal and its African policies was exposed. Labour's subsequent return to power in 1974 coincided with the overthrow of the Caetano regime and the new London government helped mediate the outwardly alarming 'revolutionary process' in Portugal to a nervous western alliance.
AB - The visit of the Portuguese premier Marcelo Caetano to London in July 1973 failed to boost Portugal's international respectability. Instead, despite the qualified sympathy of the British Conservative government, the visit highlighted Lisbon's isolation from the realities of the cold war and dtente. Public protests punctuated the visit, and the gulf between the attitudes of the main British political parties to Portugal and its African policies was exposed. Labour's subsequent return to power in 1974 coincided with the overthrow of the Caetano regime and the new London government helped mediate the outwardly alarming 'revolutionary process' in Portugal to a nervous western alliance.
U2 - 10.1080/14682740902764551
DO - 10.1080/14682740902764551
M3 - Article
SN - 1468-2745
VL - 10
SP - 29
EP - 50
JO - Cold War History
JF - Cold War History
IS - 1
ER -