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Flag of Mocidade Portuguesa, the regime’s youth organization.
Its is a banner of the arms, very similar to the royal flag of
1385-1433, but with only five bezants in each
eschuteon (normalization to current heraldry) and
with these in pentagonal
shape (due to the late art nouveau / fascist-modernist inclinations
of the regime artists). There were probably a lot more flags of this
organization (rank and unit banners), but I have no information about it.
António Martins, 4 Dec 1998
Today attached photos of portuguese flags in the national Stadium in 1944
showing Portuguese Youth guidons fixed to the stadium infrastructure on a row of poles
where the national flag is also hoisted, several times. I think this is
noteworthy for two reasons: Hoisting of several national flags, in a way
usually felt to be trivializing (not unusual nowadays in Portugal but
unexpected for 1944), and hoisting of the national flag along and at the
same visual rank as a "lesser" organizational flag . This may be due to
recklessness, but the latter excusable in the sense that the Portuguese
Youth guidon is essentially the "national" flag of 1385-1485, and
as such arguably equivalent to the current/contemporary national flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 Feb 2009
Legião Portuguesa, a paramilitary organization set by the Salazar regime
in the late 20ies, if I recall correctly, and lasted until 1974. It’s flag is
a banner of the arms of «argent, a cross fleury vert
(Avis Order Cross), a bordure of the same». There
were probably a lot more flags of this organization (rank and
unit banners), but I have no information about it.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 Dec 1998