Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
D|CTATORS AGREE
ON BRAZIL POLICY
Spain and Portugal Sign
Treaty of Peace
and Amity.
sne;ial Correspondence of The star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
MADRID, Spain. January 4.-Ex
tension of Spanish and Portuguese in.
f1uence to Brazil is one item of a pro-
gram of cooperation between Spair
and Portugal which is believed to have
been agreed upon by the two govern
mentS during the recent visit to Spain
of Gen. Antonio Carmona, dictator of
Portugal. Gen. Carmona, who was &C
companied by the Portuguese prime
minister and minister of foreign affairs
enjoyed nine-day sojourn, during
which he attended the Seville and Bar
celona exhibitions and held important
conversations with Gen. Primo de
Rivera.
Committees of experts will now COIL
slider the program as agreed upon by
the dictators and attempt to put it intG.
effect. The entente, which is now the
corner stone of the two countries pol
ices, will extend to foreign relations, but
although it excludes France and Italy.
it IS described by the two governments
as entirely peaceful.
policy of rapprochement between
spain and Portugal has been pushed by
Gen. Carmona and his fellow dictator.
Gen de Rivera. A special treaty of
peace and arnity has been signed
Agreement has been reached regarding
the division of hydraulic power to be
derived from the waters of the Duero.
which forms the boundary between the
two countries for go miles. Works arc
now being planned in detail
Coed relations between the Iberian
nations are the work of the military
dlctatorships in both countries, and re-
place centuries of suspicion and rivalry.
Hostility was manifest as recently as
1925. partly because monarchical Spain
viewed with alarm the republicanism CT
her neighbor. To prevent the spread
OF revolutionary and democratic ideas
spain had permitted Portuguese row.
al1Sts to scheme and plot on Spanish
soil against the republic and even to
organize an armed invasion of the Por-
tugueSe province of Braganza. The
success OF the Lisbon government in
crushing this attempt further antaa-
onized the two countries.
In May. 1926, however, the coup
d'etat of Gen. Gomez da Costa allayed
Spanish fears of republicanism and the
success with which the Portuguese gov
eminent has maintained its position
and effected economic reforms since
then has won the esteem of Madrid
From that time the two nations have
steadily worked together, both in their
own affairs and in foreign relations.
After having been rivals for CEN
turtles in high deeds of discovery and
colonization, then eStranged during long
years Of depression and internal strife
when these sister people of The PENN
sula seemed sinking, sinking, Spain
and Portugal, under the leadership of
determined but far from tyrannous mil
1tary dictators, are rapidly regaining
their place in history. Their Latin
characteristics of resiliency and bril-
lancy give promise that recovery will
be rapid, and, indeed, the progress made
by Spain as testified in the great exhi-
billions at Seville and Barcelona is as
toniShing enough
The exhibitions however, are only a
surface manifestation such as the i'm
provementS in railways and roads in
both Spain and Portugal are. Far more
important happenings are the funda-
mental changes in the relations between
the two governments destined to alter
the national outlook of both Spaniards
and Portuguese II the fruit expected
ripens. It will be great change.
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