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During the year of 1962, it was realized that an exclusively military solution was not definitely accepted. In fact, Venâncio Deslandes and Sarmento Rodrigues, general governors of Angola and Mozambique, supported by the minister of Overseas, Adriano Moreira, tried some solutions based on a progressive programme of autonomy, opposite to the politics of Salazar.
They were immediately replaced in their functions.
The initial politics was retaken and all the solutions that would mean any cession from the Portuguese side were definitively put aside. The problem was therefore completed delivered to the military action.
Portuguese government then developed huge diplomatic efforts with some positive results, inverting the initial positions of some of the allied. In fact, the United States of America, France and Germany started to support certain aspects of Portuguese politics, allowing the selling of war material to Portugal, immediately sent to the colonial fronts.
On the Portuguese side, war was supported by the political principle of defence of that was considered national territory, based on multi continental and multi racial concepts. On the side of the liberation movements, war was justified by the inalienable principle of self determination and independence, in an international framework of support to this struggle.
The “Estado Novo”, first with Salazar and afterwards with Marcelo Caetano, strictly kept the essential of the colonial politics, closing all doors of a credible solution for the problem of any of the territories. In fact, it maintained, as fundamental theory, the indivisibility of the cases, never admitting the possibility of finding different solutions for different problems.
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