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Further information: Salazar had lived through the hard times of, in which Portugal participated during the period of the First Republic; followed its course while he was in power. Salazar was widely praised for keeping Portugal neutral during the Second World War. From the war's very beginning in 1939, Salazar was convinced that Britain would suffer injury, but remain undefeated, that the United States would step into the conflict and that the would win.

The American journalist Henry J. Taylor commented: 'I found not another continental European leader who then agreed with him'.

Neutrality [ ] In 1934, several years before the war began, Salazar clarified in an official speech that Portuguese nationalism did not include 'the pagan ideal and anti-human to deify a race or empire', and again, in 1937, Salazar published a book wherein he criticized the passed in 1935 in Germany, considering it regrettable that German nationalism was 'wrinkled by racial characteristics so well marked,' which had imposed 'the legal point of view, the distinction between citizens and the subject – and this at the risk of dangerous consequences.' Salazar thought regarding World War II, 'a German victory spelt disaster for the rule of law and for peripheral, agricultural, countries such as Portugal.'

Salazar's dislike of the and its imperial ambitions was tempered only by his view of the German Reich as a bastion against the spread of communism rather than an allied nation. He had favoured the Spanish nationalist cause out of fear of a communist invasion of Portugal, yet he was uneasy at the prospect of a Spanish government bolstered by strong ties with the. Salazar's policy of neutrality for Portugal in World War II thus included a strategic component. The country still held overseas territories that Portugal could not defend from military attack.

Siding with the Axis would have brought Portugal into conflict with Britain, likely resulting in the loss of its colonies, while siding with the Allies risked the security of the home country on the mainland. As the price to pay for remaining neutral, Portugal continued to export and other commodities to both the Axis (via Switzerland, partly) and the Allied countries. On 1 September 1939, at the start of World War II, the Portuguese Government announced that the 600-year-old remained intact, but that since the British did not seek Portuguese assistance, Portugal was free to remain neutral in the war and would do so. In an of 5 September 1939, the British Government confirmed the understanding. Responses [ ] British strategists regarded Portuguese non-belligerency as 'essential to keep Spain from entering the war on the side of the Axis'.

Britain recognised Salazar's important role on 15 May 1940, when Douglas Veale, Registrar of the University of Oxford, informed him that the University's had 'unanimously decided at its meeting last Monday, to invite you [Salazar] to accept the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Civil Law'. The same Life magazine article of July 1940 that praised Salazar's work on behalf of the Portuguese nation commented, 'this year, for [the] first time in centuries, Portugal is important to America. Ip Setup Utility Sony Camera. It is the funnel through which to pour all the exchanges – of people and messages and diplomacy – between America and Europe. The war, by cutting the lines of intercourse to Northern Europe, has made Portugal what [one might say] geography intended – not a faraway corner of Europe but its front door.' In September 1940, wrote to Salazar to congratulate him for his policy of keeping Portugal out of the war, avowing that 'as so often before during the many centuries of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, British and Portuguese interests are identical on this vital question.' , the British Ambassador in Madrid from 1940 to 1944, recognised Salazar's crucial role in keeping Iberia neutral during World War II, and lauded him for it. Hoare averred that 'Salazar detested Hitler and all his works' and that his corporative state was fundamentally different from a Nazi or fascist state, with Salazar never leaving a doubt of his desire for a Nazi defeat.