 Amongst these moments, the prohibition during the Estado Novo dictatorship (law nº1901 dated May 13, 1935, proposed by José Cabral who had recently joined the single state-ruled party "União Nacional", National Union, after leaving the Portuguese integralists and the national-syndicalists leadered by Francisco Rolão Preto) which forced Portuguese freemasons into clandestinity and often prison and political exile.Fernando Pessoa, the renowned Portuguese poet, who assumed himself as a profane (or non-mason) published an article in "Diário de Lisboa" (Lisbon Daily, a daily newspaper) defending Freemasonry and specifically the Grande Oriente Lusitano.During clandestinity (1935-1974), the Grande Oriente Lusitano had its buildings confiscated and the Masonic Palace, in center Lisbon, occupied by the Legião Portuguesa ("Portuguese Legion", a para-military political force created for the "defense of the State").