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members eventually grew to more than 80,000. Pinto achieved significant popularity and came to have strong political influence with
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The reactions of the military to the activities of the MNF and to visits to Africa by Pinto were varied. The armed forces were becoming politicised and were unhappy about being required to fight the colonial wars. In some cases, the MNF was attacked as a way to attack the regime. Following the stroke
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social hierarchy, founded the
National Women's Movement in 1961, officially on 28 April, the birthday of Salazar. It drew its initial membership almost entirely from the upper-middle and upper classes. The first meeting was held in a small room in Luís de Camões square in Lisbon. The number of
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Pinto was also well known for her visits to the combat areas. She would wear camouflage, sleep in field tents, and sometimes have to escape enemy fire by going into the forest with the military. Her motto was "For God and for the
Fatherland". She would often travel to the colonies with large
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on 30 May 1921. She was the first of four daughters of Manuel António do Casal-Ribeiro de
Carvalho, of the family of the Viscounts of Chanceleiros. Pinto claimed that at the age of seven she could speak three languages fluently. She attended the nursing school of
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quantities of flowers to give to the armed forces. An indication of the importance she achieved within just a short time of the founding of the MNF is that when she flew from Lisbon to
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