CANADIAN PICKETS DEMAND TRUTH ABOUT DELGADO
TORONTO, March 21 -- The Portuguese consulate in the heart of the shopping area here was picketed yesterday by a group carrying banners demanding to know the truth about the whereabouts of General Humberto Delgado and expressing solidarity with twenty Lisbon students held incommunicado since their arrest last January.
_ About fifty Portuguese-Canadians and a dozen supporters circled the Toronto building.in which the consulate has offices. A leaflet was distributed to curious passers-by.
The leaflet,, which was issued by the Portuguese Canadian Democratic Association, stated that rumors of Delgado's arrest ‘at Badajoz in Spain had been affirmed by the Portuguese Democratic Association in North Africa, Delgado and several associates appear to have gone to Spain in order to group the "revolutionary forces inside the country [Portugal] to start the assault against the fascist [Salazar] regime." The leaflet expressed fear that Delgado had been arrested by Franco's police, turned over to Salazar's secret police and executed.
The demonstrators! placards. urged support for the demand that imprisoned students be released, opposed Canadian aid to the Salazar regime (Ottawa recently admitted that Canadian military aircraft have been going to Salazar through the West German government) and demanded to know -~ if General Delgado has not been murdered --. what — charges he faces and that he be immediately freed,