Manoel Sarmento Rodrigues
 Manoel Sarmento Rodrigues    (mariner, academic) | |
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| Born | 15 June 1899 Portugal |
| Died | 1 August 1979 (Age 80) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Alma mater | Naval School (Portugal), University of Coimbra |
Portuguese colonial administrator trying to keep the empire intact with reforms. Attended the 1959 Bilderberg meeting, where one of the topics was "What are the elements in the evolving picture in tropical Africa that may affect Western unity?"; and the 1960 Bilderberg meeting.
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Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues[1][2][3] was a naval officer, colonist and professor. He attended the 1959 Bilderberg meeting, where one of the topics was "What are the elements in the evolving picture in tropical Africa that may affect Western unity?"; and the the 1960 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
He was born in 1899 in Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Portugal. He attended a secondary school in Bragança and attended the University of Coimbra. He entered the Naval School and concluded the marine course in 1921.
Career
As a junior officer, he embarked in the República on board which he was accompanied by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral through the South Atlantic and in the Lis, he was the aide-de-camp of the Governor-General of Portuguese India and on board the transport Pêro de Alenquer. He gave assistance to the victims of the 1926 Horta earthquake. He travelled extensively to the Portuguese colonies of the Far East and Africa.
In 1936, he was part of the Hydrographic Mission of the Adjacent Islands. He was put in charge in the survey of the seas of the Azores and the Madeira islands.
In 1941, he assumed the command of the torpedo-boat destroyer Lima, which he kept until 1945. Under his command, the Lima participated in various operations of rescues of torpedo ships in the seas of the Azores during World War II. He later attended Escola Superior Colonial.
As a senior official, he became a colonial administrator, being the Governor of Portuguese Guinea between 1946 and 1949. In 1950, he became governor general of Salazar as Ministry of the Colonies (partly in 1951, Ministry of Ultramar), having these implemented functions on the vast reform of the Portuguese colonial administration, he visited the Far East, Southeast Asia and Africa. Between 1961 and 1964, he was governor general of Portuguese Mozambique.
He died in Lisbon on 1 August 1979 at the age of 80.
He is an author of Ancoradouros das Ilhas dos Açores (Anchorage of the Azores Islands) and No Governo da Guiné: Discursos e Afirmações (1949).
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1959 | 18 September 1959 | 20 September 1959 | Turkey Yesilkoy | The 8th Bilderberg and the first in Turkey. 60 guests. |
| Bilderberg/1960 | 28 May 1960 | 29 May 1960 | Switzerland Bürgenstock | The 9th such meeting and the first one in Switzerland. 61 participants + 4 "in attendance". The meeting report contains a press statement, 4 sentences long. |
