Original sentence: "Proudly alone" was the motto of his final decade.For Salazar, Portugal had been a multicultural, multiracial and pluricontinental nation since the 15th Century, and if the country was to be dismembered by losing its overseas territories, that would spell the end for Portuguese independence.His reluctance to travel abroad, his increasing stubbornness against delivering the colonies to the Marxist movements endorsed by the African Unity Organization, his blind will to fight the so-called "winds of change" sponsored by the superpowers (USSR, USA), and his refusal to grasp the impossibility of his regime outliving him, marked the final years of his tenure
Edited sentence: "Proudly alone" was the nation's motto in his final decade.His reluctance to travel abroad, his refusal against delivering the overseas provinces to the Marxist movements endorsed by the African Unity Organization, his iron-will to fight the so-called "winds of change" sponsored by the superpowers (USSR, USA), and his refusal to grasp the impossibility of his regime outliving him, marked the final years of his tenure.Salazar knew that Portugal had been a multicultural, multiracial and pluricontinental nation since the 15th Century, and if the country was to be dismembered by losing its overseas territories, that would spell the end for Portuguese independence