Show PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL theophilo braga provisional president 0 of f P for or in an interview emphasizes what he calls the philosophical source of the revolution the men who have been spreading the doctrines of republicanism he says are professors mathematicians writers and generally men of learning the result he thinks is first of all a victory for the cause of education an effort to restore the portuguese people to the intellectual rank lost for so long a time it is our aim he says to show the portuguese as a race of the elite both physically and intellectually it is our greatest honor by an admirable revolution to demonstrate to the world that the portuguese are worthy of their ancestors F from rom th the names announced of the provisional government the intellectuals the idealist republicans who dream of malting making cortti portugal al worthy of her former glory have carried through this movement or at tiny auy rate are for the moment in control putting Theop theophile lille braga the one portuguese scholar of international reputation at their head is a shrewd move on the part of the revolutionists it follows the curious latin fashion of bestowing political power on literary men but it also declares to europe that the true men of progress the men of education and of position are directing the revolution and not the street rabble of lisbon among senhor br bragas agas col colleagues ledgues are many college professors while military and naval men are noticeably absent dr theophile braga is a 1 fifon about fifty alve years old and a graduate of a leading european university he began the practise of medicine lu in lisbon when a young man and has been prominent throughout portugal for many years past |