The Archive · 1937

LISBON "MAN WITH THE LIMP" ARRESTED

Lisbon," July 7

The person who touched off the bomb which nearly cost the life of the Premier, Dr. de Oliveira Salazar, last Sunday, has been arrested by the Lisbon police. He and the mysterious "spectator who limped away" from the scene of the explosion are one and the same. The fellow is a Pormoval of obstacles hampering international commerce and are anxious to improve relations between the declared M. Paul van Zeeland, Premier of Belgium, on his. return here from the United States.

"My conversations with members of the British Government have also been very hopeful" he stated, adding that he will pursue his inquiry with the well-known economic expert, Mr. Maurice Frere. tuguese but the authorities are working on the theory that the "brains" of the plot were foreign. Four others rounded up are accused of a part in the affair—Havas,

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