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THE POOR RELATION
IN his more eloquent 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.
them.
February 5, 1941.
Life Is Strange in
LISBON, the New Edge
you want to know how
It feels to be on the edge
of the world-and in danger of
dropping into space-como to Lisbon,
Westernmost capital of the
of the World
Continent, it is the resting place them. They seem to be phan- vaslon with a mere £10,000 R
Ships of every size and rig fill the Tagus estuary. The Portuguese-fleet of the caravans of the East. tom ships, like the Flying Dutch- year,
will be moored there, and thero is As Hitler goose-stepped across man, scen on the horizon but
'Then there was the sad-eyed, sure to be a United States cruiser or
sloop. Europe, packing a kick in his never making port.
emaciated Croesus who married outsize army boots, everybody So here we remain, a motley a beauty
As you come closer bright splashes. queen. They
Sun of geranium and cyclamen in the who thinks the same na I do crew, reputed millionaires mix bathed on the beach at Estoril, public gardens add to the colour of about Germans mude for Lisbon ing with their valets, diplomats and made plans for a new life the water front.,
if he had the fare. They were giving away secrets from sheer in the States. Then he disap- Happen on the elty from the land of all nationalities, including boredom, journalists hoping for non-Aryan Germans ready to a bust-up to give them susten- peared, and was next heard of side and it looks like a picture on take anybody's nationality. ance, and miscellaneous nobodies in prison in his native France, the cover of a fairytale,
There are always flags flying, and 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 the world. The next 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 Use Fairy
ment had some questions to ask.
People who knew Lisbon 15 years have the fare to America and have been able to save some- can get a visa to that Land of thing from the wreck of their So the long arm of the law ago would no longer recognise it.
reached out for him.
Oliviera Salazar, the all-powerful Premier, has banished its squalor But most of this Legion of and inode it, spotless.
Jordan.
So precarious is your grip on
fortunes.
WE have had some singu- the Loat have no such weight The Avenida da Liberdade is one lar instances of the of financial responsibility; they of the finest thoroughfares in the
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.
just have money trouble.
By HUGH MUIR
world,
and a magnificent sea rond now takes you to the countless At- lantic beaches nearby.
To explore the city you get into one of the little Austin taxicabs that are always ncàrly running people Seaplanes have been seen leav- ing for England, but mailbage A Rotchschild deprived of his Actresses and dancers that over and you go switch-backing up and down the dangerously steep
the
volcanic pay the highest freight, so un- European fortunes had to scrub once had their names in neon streets that climb over
merged with the hills on which Lisbon stands. less you can post yourself or his own socks in the washbasin lights are
At night the romantic go up to the can claim priority in some other of an obscure hotel while wait anxious world of merchants, way you are just a name on a ing to get to America to obtain shopkeepers, diamond brokers, heights of Graca and whisper their love in the warm stillness, with the the few millions remaining to out-of-work Cabinet Ministers, lights of the city twinkling for be dog-eared waiting list.
him.
dispossessed Polish landowners, low. helpless aristocrats and polyglot
Boats are said to leave the Tagus for English ports when
A French-perfume magnate sirens with undulating figures the Ministry of Shipping re- found himself here among the and Paris clothes, members us, but we seldom see backwash of the German in-
PATCHES
ARE
THE FASHION
mostly THE Portuguese are
tiny and unfailingly friendly: a bijou people with big hearts. They
their that
HOTEL lounges and bars would be plain were it not for their eyes, which are long-lashed and like- are redolent of sauer- black velvet. kraut and spaghetti, for Nazi Their thoughts are mostly of love, and Fascist agents pollute the and the ente terraces aro crowded Jaun-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 foregather in corners, of their notice. reading their controlled news- Once, the Portuguese were the world's greatest navigators, but now papers.
they are homely and their wants are The British, heavily out-numbered, few. but stoutly supported by the Amerl- Men of the humbler classes are HE-other-day-somebody in whether he has noticed that your cans and other on the winning side happy if they have a new trilby Ten oficial position, when of butons of wisty of pink 206
coat is held together by a trouser-mutter their thoughts Into
always too small for them, highly polished shoes and a apit urging us to save all we can, different patterns, you cannot achieve The bars are the midday clearing toon, mentioned money usually spent that ease of manner and self-con houses of the latest gossip.
these foreigners sprawling fidence that will impress him with. If you want to know what Hiller's over their country have increased 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, order a drink, eat but they never complain and smile us that from now on we should services.
peanuts and throw the shells on the on us rendily. take a pride in wearing old. Now, however, all this will be clothes, If we have to patch changed. The well-dressed man who door, and keep your cars open. Then if you are not convinced office presents himself at an
you THE security police are the them, he said, patches should be search of work will be automatically the English bars down by the port think much of us. We give them
not. refused admission by the commis- regarded as a badge of honour.
sionaire. Men dressed as I once was where sen captains meet, and by a lot of work, for they have to keep. And, after all, there is no reason in an old torn coat with an astrakhan then you know less than when you track of us and make us pay sojourn why, In the course of fashion's collar will be welcomed with open
Then there are some bad eggs Prins and will be asked whether as changes, patched conts should not for a great favour they would be will- THE sen approach to Lisbon among us that have to be watched. 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 see Aristocratic women used to de-directors.. tiberately wear little block patches
while, pink and blue buildings rising could get back to the good old Por-
All
in Igo to the Aviz, the Tivoli or one of THE
only people wha do moment
In considering the colossal humbug that is the Fascist State, It must be noted that this valiant system, which was sup- posed to glory in war, has not only failed to distinguish itself therein, but also obviously wanted to get its share of the spoils without even fighting for
Mussolini's 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.
Istarted,
tnx.
And this new age of patches will [up and up on terraces, with palms, tuguese custom of taking things cany On their faces. They probably not lack picturesqueness. I am in- tamarisks and eucalyptus trees offer- and letting their thoughts run to originated in an attempt to concenlclined to think that a patched nult mg shade.
deformiles, but when they became will make an even greater appeal to fashionable they were considered the artistic eye than the best-cut suft
from a West-End tailor,
beautiful,
I have myself no objection to wearing old clothes. In fact, I rather!
Mussolini also calculated that, piensures that men experience in the wearing a very old suit which, un- like them. There are two great At the moment I happen to be with France out of the war, the matter of dress. One is wearing a fortunately, is not at all picturesque. surrender of Britain would come new and exquialtely-cut suit for the I was wearing it, however, at the as a matter of course und in very suit of the kind that wives and chi-myself in one of those unreasonable first time; another is wearing an old Beginning of the war, and I said to short time. There would thus Iren try to steal and give away in moods that men have: "I will wear Le two Empires for carving up,
charity.
this suit til the war is over." with, if not the lion's at least the jackal's share for Italy. That was another bitter disillusion- ment to the lesser dictator,
At that time, I confess, I was suf- fering from wishful thinking, and had no doubt that the war would be Half the craze for wearing new over fairly soon. Even so, I do not clothes comes, I suspect, from the regret my decision. Every time I desire of self-advertisement.
put the suit on I feci optimistic, since When I first came to London, 1 regard it as essentially a victory dressed. It was in the depths of sometimes wished I were better Bult.
4
To compensate for these set- bucks, he. reckoned that Greece was to be had for the asking, winter and my overcoat was an old much care for the pattern of the When I wore it first I did not and that thereby the "Mara cont with an astrakhan collar, which cloth, but through long association 1 nostrum" idea would be brought There were triangular rips in it here not yet had a patch nothing more had once belonged to another man. have grown quite fond of it. It has a little nearer to reality. Again and there, and the buttons did not than a few stitches at one of the the Duce's calculations were inatch, one of them being a trouser elbows--but a patch or two, when button, another black, and another they become necessary will, I think, awry, and the Mediterranean, 50 bone-coloured.
improve it far from being his son, is more beset "with pitfall and with gin" for the Italians than it ever was. He has in fact well nigh lost his own Empire.
It can scarcely be wondered at
if Mussolini, looking at the map
of Europe to-day, feels that his place in the Axle is merely that
t did not mind that; but unfor- lunately I had to look for work and seo editors in pursuit of it; and dared not appear in that coat in
Fleet Street office by daylight. As a result, I had always to wait for the
fall of darkness before venturing to
patched clothes has always been, not After all the real objection to that they are ugly or uncomfortable, but that they are not respectable.
Now that they have become re="
spectable, there 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 sült Old Faithful, clut light. would be all but invisible by artid- and you will begin to feel quite
sentimental about it.
of the poor and tolerated relau, white you are interviewing a ROBERT LYND
tion.
This is good for morale,!
portant person, you keep wondering'
ENGLISH CHANNEL.
love.
“There is a Tide in the Affairs of Man". AS THEY SEE IT ABROAD, (Victoria""Daily Times"),
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