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"If you invade Spain and Portugal, we shall not resist. But I warn you, you will be sorry if
February 19, 1941.
ROCIO SQUARE, LISBON'S FLOWER MARKET.
RTUGAL
WHY PORTUGAL REMAINS NEUTRAL
you make such a tragic
blunder the same fatal
mistake that Napoleon made, and that paved the way for his ultimate
By
DOUGLAS BROWN
downfall. There is just counted above to explain side, or, rather, is at the point barely enough food in Hitler's failure to go into where the two spheres neatly rations Ordinance, 1016 Telecommuni- Spain and Portugal to Spain and Portugal. You intersect. Equilibrium, if pre- bears the indication tips is received in feed ourselves. If your will not hear it on the street
Indleale news which is strictly copyright
news as
Bongbong on the date of publication by the United Press Assoctailans, who, re- wholly or in part without previous
arrangement
THAILAND
THAILAND'S friendship for
carious, is maintained.
a Latin and Roman Catholic
1
...
marking the foundation of Por tugalin 1140, when Alfonso Henriques bent back the Moors, and also marking the restora- tion of the nation's indepen-* dence in 1640, after 60 years of
to the subjugation
Spanish Crown. The many ceremonies, curtailed and bereit of foreign visitors though they were, showed that Portugal, in, cole- brating its own history, was either wrights and forbid repubileations Soldiers come in, we corners, under the palm and
ON the other hand, Portu honouring just those qualities shall all starve to- pepper trees of Lisbon's play
gal, as part of the Iberi- of Europeanism which render lazy avenues, but in the em- an Peninsula, is dependent to the most spectacular Continen- gether."
Hitler-so the story goes bassics and diplomatic cir- some extent on decisions taken tal conquests transitory after -was so deeply impressed cles of the Portuguese in, or forced upon, Madrid. As all.
capital.
In June, 1940, just about the Britain
by this message from a as emphasised by fellow dictator, with its Just about a week before the dictatorship, Portugal owes no time the national exhibition was half ♫
dozen of her daily warning reference to his with Hitler at San Sebastian, cratic principles which Great opportunity for a modern ex- historic but abortive meeting special allegiance to the demo- opened, there came a dramatic newspapers, strikes 1
note, favourite historical charac- Salazar quietly slipped out of Britain professca. As a small pression of loyalty to the the sincerity of which
European ideal. It was then canter, Bonaparte, that he Lisbon and, under cover of the and virtually defenceless power, scarcely be doubted, bearing in abandoned, or, at least post- most complete, secrecy, met Portugal has naturally been im that the stream of war refugees. mind the long tradition of amity poned indefinitely, his General Franes in a convenient pressed by the fate of the coun- burat across the frontiers, and ly isolated spot halfway between tries which have unsuccessfully idlers, Jews, Flemish peasants, ex-kings,' millionaires, Riviera between the two countries on scheme for taking over Madrid and the Portuguese tried to resist the German arms. Allied statesmen, impoverished which Japanese manoeuvres to Spain and Portugal. This is frontier. Here the two Iberian But the scales are balanced British, subjects, came pouring attain predominant third-party the tale you hear whispered dictators held a conference last- on the other side. There is a in. All were treated with a influence have made little more on the broad, busy boule- ing several days. They thrashed long-standing antagonism be generosity that was in startling than a big dent. Is Thailand vards and the narrow, bust problems troubling Hispanic Spaniards which precludes any which, for the moment, seems to out thoroughly the many thorny tween the Portuguese and the contrast to the heartlessness going to straighten out this denting streets of Lisbon. How Portuguese relations. Above all, automatic assimilation by one of have gripped the rest of the much of it is fact and how they agreed on a united attitude the other's foreign policies. The to convince Britain that she much fancy is anybody's toward the Nazi
Continent. Portuguese dictatorship is a really is not working under
Meanwhile, Lisbon, where the Thus, in a joint master move, theocracy which guess. Nowhere in the world
places the American Clipper meets the Japanese compulsion, or have does one hear so many neatly cut the ground from un-therefore, ideologically-at-the-
Dr. Salazar and General Franco family above the State, and is, European air liners, became the our observers on the spot known all political rumours as in Por- der the feet of their visitor. opposite pole from Naziism and Junction of Europe for the more the time that I was fear of Japanese tugal. Crowded as it is with Hitler's trump card at San Fascism. Above all, the Portu- fact, the only truly cosmopoli- led the little country to demand the people of all nationalities, Sebastian was to be an offer to guese Empire rests now entire tan city in the Old World.
Into this narrow channel are cession of territory valuable for de- with travellers and refugees General Franco to unite Portu- ly on British sea power, so that gal to Spain-an old Spanish the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance trying to get through almost ambition. By getting together Europe's most ancient alli- now concentrated all the free intellectual contacts between From the reports published it was the only doorway from the and agreeing to stay apart, but ance-though so far uninvoked the two hemispheres, just as feared that Japan meant to use the flaming old world to the to co-operate, the two Iberian in the present struggle, is still most of the trade was concen- trated there in the seventeenth pportunity to sel Indo-China against new, Lisbon in particular leaders forestalled and disarmed a potential force.
A country where there is such Thalland, establish herself finnly in has become the perfect set-
century. It Is but the latest a delicate balance of foreign in- phase of Portugal's role as the both, settle their differences with a ting for spy stories, for re- very hard velvet glove and then de-ports of international in-
So that according to the uncated by country which is instrument of historical. pro-
separated a wide and would- cesses in the wider world. cide what was the next best thing to trigue. There is no doubt rumour-laden Liebon-is why actual theatre of war, has the a small, compact, peasant na
reports one hears in be neutral neighbour from the
Yet in itself Portugal remains that underneath much Portugal is still, in all probabi- Britain still fears that the "next romantic fiction is a lot of lity, the most completely neutral special duty and privilege at this tion, subject to those economie best thing" for Japan to do will be
time to preserve what can be ills to which such communities something very unpleasant
actual fact that is even country in Europe. for
preserved of the deeper values are peculiarly liable in times of There are other countries as of European civilisation. Britain, dictated as it will be by Mr stranger.
international anxious to keep out of war, but
upheaval. Japanese can protest
conflict rages so fiercely around
Oliveira Salazar's corporative PORTUGAL showed itself state has many interns! prob- well fitted for this im- lems to contend with, oven south, by force if necessary; Ger-hind the popular version re- sphere of influence of either double centenary
the real story begal still remains outside the portant role in last year's though. Adolf Hitler's legions
aggression through Indo-Ching that
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Hitler. No
against this statement: the utterances
of her leading statesman have all, been of one kind-we will expand
many and Italy are our friends and we base our deals on theirs; we will help them all, we can; we dislike Britain and America because they are helping China; we do not want to fight those countries, but we will f they try to stop our immutable policy of establishing. Japanese leadership
·over, all Asia.
It is heartening news that Britain has thrown her forces to the borders of Malaya and that within the mighty stronghold of Singapore powerful air units are established ready to take up the gauntlet If it should be thrown down.
Thalland may. And more need for her newly acquired nationalism if her guess that she was next on the st of Japanese objective was right. From the British she has nothing to fear.. "A gun in the hand of a friend we fear no more than a walk- ing stick."
Certainly Britain does not want to take on any more compliments than she has to; but when will Japan and her Axis Alles learn that the lampire's right and her will to fight for her- self and her friends
is Just as in- mutable as the
everlasting Nippon Empire? Let us hope that they will learn in the Eost a lesson from the West where, though the end of the lesson hins not been reached, our re- | markable ability is rapidly becoming as prominent as our immutable will,
this scheme.
FOR instance, there is them that they seem already
part of the battlefield. Portu-
ON THE COSTA DO SOL, ESTORIL, PORTUGAL.
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moneyed travellers--became, in
Dr
celebrations may never cross the Pyrenees. Financial rectitude has been his watchword, and it still is, though to-day the sardine. market has shrunk alarmingly, and cork and wine offer uncer tain markets.
PORTUGUESE economy since the Methuen Treaty has been built up on the assumption of a considerable and specialised flow of trade with Great Britain. A check in that low might bring disaster;' but, fortunately, the British Ministry of Economic Warfare is aware that the commercial health of Portugal is a British strategic interest of the first im- portance. The future is depen- dent on the course of the war in the Mediterranean.
Many outside observers be- lieve that the best policy for Portugal, when peace comes again, will be that political out- look, uncovered and modernised rather than introduced by Dr Salazar, which draws realiam from the soil and idealism from the philosophy of family and social relationships,
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