New President

Dr. Manuel Teixeira Gomez, ex-Ambassador to Great Britain, was elected by Parliament as fourth President of Portugal. He succeeds Dr. Antonio Jose de Almeida, whose term of office (four years) expired.

Dr. Gomes was Portuguese Minister to Britain from the time of the revolution until 1920, when he was raised to the rank of Ambassador to the same country. He continued to hold this office up to the time of his election to the Presidency.

Portugal became a Republic on October 5, 1910, after a short revolution which deposed King Manoel II, head of the Braganza-Coburg House. King Manuel is still alive and lives in England.

At one time Portugal owned a vast colonial empire in India and South America. In the 15th and 16th Centuries the princes of Portugal by giving their patronage to explorers, raised the Kingdom to a world position second only to that of Spain.