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THE POOR RELATION
IN his more cloquent days, Mussolini used often to proclaim the joy of living dangerously. A twin theme was the "degenerate- ness" of the democracies; only "young" nations such as Italy were fit to live and have a future, Actually, Fascism sits in the place rather unworthily-of one of the oldest European civilisations, but that seems not to be considered by the Duce to be a contradiction in terms,
Life Is
February 5, 1941.
Strange in
LISBON, the New Edge
It is to be on the edge TF you want to know how
of the world—and in danger of
dropping into space-come Lisbon.
to
Westernmost capital of the
of
the World
the
Continent, it is the resting place them. They seem to be phan- vasion with a mere £10,000 a of the caravans of the East. tom ships, like the Flying Dutch year.
Ships of every size and rlg All the Tagus estuary. The Portuguese feet will be moored there, and there is As Hitler goose-stepped across man, seen on the horizon but
Then there was the sad-eyed, sure to be a United States cruiser or
ploop. Europe, packing a kick in his never making port.
emaciated Crocsus who married
As you come closer bright splashes outsize army boots, everybody So here we remain, a motley a beauty queen. They Bun- of geranium and cyclamen in the who thinks the same as I do crew, reputed millionaires mix- bathed on the beach at Estoril, public gardens add to the colour of about Germans matte for Lisbon ing with their valets, diplomats and made plans for a new life the water front..
!
ance, and miscellaneous nobodies
if he had the fare. They were giving away secrets from sheer in the States. Then he disap- Huppen on the city from the land of all nationalities, including boredom, journalists hoping for peared, and was next heard of side and it looks like a picture on non-Aryan Germans ready to
a bust-up to give them susten- in prison in his.native France. the cover of a fairytale.
There are always flags flying, and take anybody's nationality.
Before the collapse of France the Castello de Sao Jorge, the great HERE, then, is the edge of trying to be somebody.
he was making aeroplane en- Moorish citadel high up above the Every week the Clipper leaves
Prince. thing is to drop off unless you for America with those who gines, and the French Govern- town, is the Palace of the Fairy
ment had some questions to ask. have the fare to America and have been able to save some- So the long arm of the law People who knew Lisbon 15 years can get a visa to that Land of thing from the wreck of their reached out for him.
Jordan.
the world. The next
fortunes.
+
ngo would no longer recognise it.
Oliviera Sainzar, the all-powerful Premier. hns, banished in squalor and made it spotless.
But most of this Legion of WE have had some singu- the Lost have no such weight The Avenida da Liberdade is one lar instances of the of financial responsibility; they of the finest thoroughfares in the
just have money trouble.
So precarious is your grip on safe territory that even if you are British and have a birth- right of shelter in the homeland, War's cruelty to the wealthy. you will find it difficult to get there.
Seaplanes have been seen leav-
By HUGH MUIR
ing for England, but mailbags A Rotchschild deprived of his
Actresses and dancers
world,
and
magnificent sea road now inkes you to the countless Al- lantic benchies nearby.
To explore the city you get into one of the little Austin taxicabs that are always nearly running people over and you go switch-backing up that and down the dangerously nicep neon streets that climb over the volcanic
At night the romantic go up to the
pay the highest freight, so un- European fortunes had to scrub once had their names in less you can post yourself or his own socks, in the washbasin lights are merged with the hills on which Lisbon stands. can claim priority in some other of an obscure hotel while wait- anxious world of merchants, heights of Graca and whisper their way you are just a name on. a ing to get to America to obtain shopkeepers, diamond brokers, love in the warm silliness, with the the few millions remaining to out-of-work Cabinet Ministers, lights of the city, twinkling far be- dog-eared waiting list.
dispossessed Polish landowners, low. him.
helpless aristocrats and polyglot
mostly MIE Portuguese are A French perfume magnate sirens with undulating` figures
1lny and unfailingly friendly: a bljou people with big hearts. They the Ministry of Shipping re- found himself here among the and Paris clothes.
would be plain were it not for their members us, but we seldom see backwash of the German in-
Boats are said to leave the Tagus for English ports when
PATCHES
ARE
THE FASHION
few
HOTEL lounges and bars eyes, which are long-lashed and like
are redolent of sauer- black velvel, kraut and spaghetti, for Nazi Their thoughts are mostly of love, and Fascist agents pollute the and the cafe terraces are crowded sun-cleansed air of Portugal and all day long with pocket Don Juans whose heads go from side to side, abuse her liberal hospitality. for, no passing woman is unworthy They forcgather in corners, of their notice.
Once, the Portuguese were the reading their controlled news-
world's greatest navigators, but now papers. In considering the colossal
The British, heavily out-numbered, they are homely and their wants are humbug that is the Fascist
but stoutly supported by the Ameri- Men of the humbler classes are "Stato," it must be noted that this" "THE other day somebody In whether he has noticed that your cans-and-others on the winning side, happy-if-they-have-a-now-trilby coat is held together by a trouser mutter their thoughts into their that is always too small for them, valiant system, which was sup
THE other day sition, when cout is held together by a trouser, mutter their thoug
highly polished shoes and a splt- posed to glory in war, has not urging us to save all we can, different patterns, you cannot achieve The bars are the midday clearing toon.
All these foreigners sprawling only failed to distinguish itself mentioned money usually spent that case of manner and self-com houses of the latest gossip.
fidence that will impress him with
If you want to know what Hitler's over their country have increased therein, bul also obviously on clothes in particular and told the wisdom of making use of your next move will be you go into the the cost of living for the Portuguese,
Avenida Palace, ord
order wanted to get its share of the
a drink, cat but they never complain and smile us that from now on we should services, spoils without even fighting for inke
Now, however, all this will be peanuts and throw the shells on the on us readily, a pride in wearing old them..
Then if you are not convinced you clothes. If we have to patch changed. The well-dressed man who floor, and keep your ears open.
THE security police are presents himself at an office i go to the Aviz, the Tivoli or one, of only people who do not them, he said, patches should be search of work will be automatenly the English bars down by the port think much of us. We give them
refused admission by the commis sionaire. Men dressed as I once was where sen captains meet, and by a lot of work, for they have to keep regarded as a badge of honour.
And, after all, there is no reason in an old torn coat with an astrakhan start know less than when you track of us and make us pay sojourn
Then of fashion's collar will be welcomed with open
there are some
bad eggs why, In the course
arms and will be asked whether as
THE ses approach to Lisbon among us that have to be watched. changes, patched conts should not for a great favour they would be will a season become the correct wearing to take a seat on the board of The sun is sure to be shining on its the backs of all of us, so that they provides a wonderful sight. So the police would be glad to sec used to de- directors.
white, pink and blue bulldings rising could get back to the good old Por- And, this new age of patches will up and up on terraces, with palms, tuguese custom of taking things cany ori their .faces. They probably not inek plcturesqueness. I am in- tomarloks and eucalyptus trees offer- and letting their thoughts run to originated in an attempt to conceal clined to think that a patched sulting shade. deformities, but when they became will make an even greater appeal to fashionable' they were considered the artistle eye than the best-cut sutt
from a West-End tailor. beautiful.
Mussolini's
moment great came when France was down and out. In a manner that earned for him the contempt of all the world he sought to stab her in the back when she could
not retaliate. If he hoped that
a share of France's colonies would promptly be handed over to him, he has been sadly dis- illusioned. His soul-mate in Berlin has other ideas about that.
Mussolini alsó calculated that, with France out of the war, the surrender of Britain would come as a matter of course and in very short time. There would thus be two Empires for carving up, with, if not the lion's at least the jackul's share for Italy. That was another bitter' disillusion- ment to the lesser dictator.
To compensate for these set- backs, he reckoned that Greece was to be had for the asking, and that thereby the "Mare nostrum" idea would be brought a little nearer to reality. Again the Duce's calculations were awry, and the Mediterraneas, so far from being his sen, is more beset “with pitfall and with gin". for the Italians than it over was. He has in fact well nigh lost his own Empire, -
It can scarcely bé wondered at if Mussolini, looking at the map of Europe to-day, feels that his place in the Axis is merely that
Į
Aristocratic women
liberately wear little block patches
1 bave myself no objection to wearing old clothes. In fact, I rather | like them. There are two great
At the moment I happen to be matter of dress. pleasures that men experience in the wearing a very old suit which, un- One is wearing a fortunately, not at all picturesque. new and exquisitely-cut suit for the I was wearing it, however, at the first time; another is wearing an old beginning of the war, and I said to suit of the kind that wives and chit-myself in one of those unreasonable dren try to steal and give away in moods that men have; "I will wear
this suit till the war is over." charity.
At that time, I confess, I was sut- fering from wishful thinking, and had no doubt that the wor would be Half the craze for wearing new over fairly soon. Even so, 1 do not clothes cumes, I suspect, from the regret my decision. Every time I destre of self-advertisement.
put the suit on I feel optimistic, since When I first came to London, I regard it as essentially a victory sometimen wished I were better sult. dressed. It was in the depths of When I wore it first I did not winter and my overcoat was an old much care for the pattern of the cont with an nstenkhan collar, which cloth, but through long association I had once belonged to another man. huve grown quite fond of it. It has There were triangular rips in it here not yet had a patch nothing more and there, and the buttons did not than a low stitches at, one of the match, one of them being a trouser elbows-but a patch or two, when button, another black, and another they become necessary will, I think,
Improve it.
bone-coloured,
I did not mind that; but unfor- After all the real objection to tunately I had to look for work and patched clothes has always been, not see editora in pursuit of it; and I that they are ugly or uncomfortable, dured not appear in that cont in a but that they are not respectable, Fleet Street omee by daylight. A
result, I had always to wait for the. Now that they have become re- fall of darkness before venturing to apectable, Ure is not a single fault call on an editor for an interview. 1 to be found with them.
felt that the rips on the shoulders Call your old ruit Old Faithful, would be all but Invisible by artif- and you will begin to feel quite rial light.
sentimental about it.
of the poor and tolerated rola If, while you are interviewing an im- ROBERT LYND
tion.
is not morále,
portant person, you keep wondering"
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