Gerald Ford's more or less open threats against Portugal.
obscured in the discussion around this affair.
sequences which we will go into. The Republica affair has provided the excuse for a two-fold campaign by the Soc ialist Party to sway public opinion. In Portugal itself, in the name of 'freedom, it has organised mass demonstrations on a scale which would have been totally beyond it a few months ago. 'We would have got even more votes if the elections had taken place now', exults SP leader Mario Soares. At an international level the indignant chorus of democrats has conveniently pushed into the background Aside from this campaign to sway public opinion, the Republica affair poses a real and basic problem: the attitude of the workers' movement towards the means of information. But to look at it at all seriously, we must first clear up two points of fact which have been deliberately Firstly, Republica is not the official paper of the Socialist Party, and is not part of the militant press of the workers' movement. It is a private newspaper whose opinions today are to a great extent influenced by the Socialist Party - that is all. This little difference has certain conresponsibilities through struggle the discharge of com very long rades who are married or have family