Vatican Policies and the “New State” in Portugal (1940-1955)

Abstract

The Vatican's foreign policy between the two Great World Wars. The new mechanisms of foreign policy of the Vatican: The Concordats. Policies in Africa in relation to the Settler States. The relationship with the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar. Papal diplomacy towards the NAZIS. Vatican's geopolitics has taken on a transnational and global character in a totally systematic and active way. Church in Europe would be the great purposes, eliminate the communism this is also the Salazar politic. Vatican diplomacy with the United States.