Nibble at Blend

While Portuguese from, the back country, in their large-brimmed felt hats, leaning on their quarterstaves, toiled up the Lisbon terraces through the gay Lisbon streets to celebrate the great day, Dictator General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona last week gave Portugal its first nibble at parliamentary government since he set up his self-styled "Dictatorship without a Dictator" in 1926. Instead of the oldtime Chamber of Deputies, an elected National Assembly met last week; and instead of a Senate, a Corporative Council appointed by Carmona who is very much a Dictator. With this blend of Fascism and Democracy, the spry, spare general, who has Portugal's comparatively huge army in his pocket, hopes to cure Portugal gradually of its nervous habit of periodic revolution--18 since 1910.

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