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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.

WHY PORTUGAL

REMAINS

you make such a tragic

Thongkong Telegraph. blunder the same fatal

mistake that Napoleon

Wednesday, February 19, 1941. made, and that paved

Wyndham 51., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE pred Special to the Telegraph"

news which la sérietly copyright

the way for his ultimate

By

AL

NEUTRAL

DOUGLAS BROWN

downfall. There is just counted above to explain side, or, rather, is at the point indicate by the "longkong Telegraph to barely enough food in Hitler's failure to go into where the two spheres neatly casions Ordinances of the Telecommund- Spain and Portugal to Spain and Portugal. You intersect. Equilibrium, if pre- bears the indication "Up is received la feed ourselves. If your will not hear it on the street

Buch news as

Stangkong on the date of publication by

the United Press Associations, who resoldiers

servo all rights, and forbid republications,

arrangement,

THAILAND

£1

which

Is Thailand

carious, is maintained.

marking the foundation of Por- tugal in 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 the Spanish subjugation to

Crown. The many ceremonies, visitors though they were, curtailed and bereft of foreign showed that Portugal, in celo- history, was brating its own come in, we corners, under the palm and

ON the other hand, Portu- honouring just those qualities gal, as part of the Iberi- of Europeanism which render artar wholly or in part without previous shall all starve to- pepper trees of Lisbon's play

lazy avenues, but in the em- an Peninsula, is dependent to the most spectacular Continen- gether."

Hitler so the story goes bassies and diplomatic cir- some extent on decisions taken al conquests transitory after

As all. --was so deeply impressed cles of the Portuguese in, or forced upon, Madrid.

a Latin and Roman Catholic In June, 1940, just about the THAILAND'S friendship for

by this message from a capital. Britain ឆន emphasised

Just about a week before the dictatorship, Portugal owes no time the national exhibition was by fellow dictator, with its

historic but abortive meeting special allegiance to the demo- opened, there came a dramatic half [L

to the dozen of her daily warning reference to his with Hitler at St Sebastian, cratic principles which Great opportunity for a modern ex- newspapers, strikes

European ideal. It was then note, favourite historical charac Salazar quietly slipped out of Britain professes. As a small pression of loyalty the sincerity of canter, Bonaparte, that he Lisbon and, under cover of the and virtually defenceless power, that the stream of war refugees

complete secrecy, met Portugal has naturally been im- scarcely be doubted, bearing in abandoned, or at least post- most

ex-kings, millionaires, Riviera mind the long tradition of amity poned indefinitely, his General Franco in a convenient pressed by the fate of the coun- burst across the frontiers, and ly isointed spot halfway between tries which have unsuccessfully idlers, Jews, Flemish peasants, between the two countries on scheme for taking over Madrid and the Portuguese tried to resist the German arms, Allied statesmen, impoverished But the scales are balanced British subjects, came pouring which Japanese manoeuvres to Spain and Portugal. This is frontier. Here the two Iberian 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 out thoroughly the many thorny tween the Portuguese and the contrast to the heartlessness than a big dent.

vards and the narrow, bust- problems troubling Hispanic- Spaniards which precludes any which, for the moment, seems to going to straighten out this dent ling streets of Lisbon. How Portuguese relations. Above all, automatic assimilation by one of have gripped the rest of the

Continent. much of it is fact and how they agreed on a united attitude the other's foreign policies. The

Portuguese dictatorship is a Meanwhile, Lisbon, where the to convince Britain that she much fancy is anybody's toward the Nazis.

which places really is not working under

Thus, in a joint master move, theocracy

the American Clipper meets the guess. Nowhere in the world Dr. Salazar and General Franco family above the State, and is, European air liners, became the Japanese...compulsion, or have does one-hear so many neatly-cut-the-ground-from-un-therefore, ideologically, at the junction of Europe for the more our observers on the spot known all political rumours as in Por der the feet of their visitor. opposite pole from Naziism and moneyed travellers-became, in the time that it 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 aggression through Indo-China that people of all nationalities, Sebastian was to be an offer to guese Empire rests now entire tan city in the Old World.

General Franco to unite Portu- ly on British sen power, so that led the little country to demand the with travellers and refugees gal to Spain an old Spanish the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance now concentrated all the free

trying to get through almost ambition. By getting together-Europe's most ancient all intellectual contacts the only doorway from the and agreeing to stay apart, but ance-though so far uninvolted the two hemispheres, just as flaming old world to the to co-operate, the two Iberian in the present struggle, is still most of the trade was concen- A country where there is such century. It is but the latest opportunity to sel Indo-China against new, Lisbon in particular leaders forestalled and disarmed a potential force.

has become the perfect set-

a delicate balance of foreign in- phase of Portugal's role as the fluencès, a country which is instrument of historical pro- both, settle their differences with a ting for spy stories, for re-

So that according to the separated by a wide and would- cesses in the wider world. very hard velvet glove and then deports of international in-.

reports one hears in be neutral neighbour from the Yet in itself Portugal remains: cide what was the next best thing to trigue. There is no doubt rumour-laden Lisbon-is why actual theatre of war, has the a amall, compact, peasant na- that underneath much Portugal is still, in all probabi- special duty and privilege at this tion, subject to those economic Britain still fears that the "next romantic fiction is a lot of lity, the most completely neutral time to preserve what can be ills to which such communities best thing" for Japon to do will be actual fact that is even country in Europe.

preserved of the deeper values are peculiarly liable in times of There are other countries as of European civilisation. international upheaval. Dr. anxious to keep out of war, but

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Oliveira Salazar's corporative conflict rages so fiercely around

PORTUGAL showed itself state has many internal prob lems to contend with, even gal still remains outside the portant role in last year's though Adolf Hitler's legions south, by force if necessary; Ger-hind the popular version re- sphere of influence of either double centenary celebrations may never cross the Pyrences. 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.

cession of territory valuable for de- fensive purposes?

From the reports published it was feared that Japan meant to use the

Thofland, establish herself Armly in

do.

something

very

unpleasant

for

Britain, dictated as it will be by Mr stranger.

Hitler. No Japanese can protest against this statement; the utterances of her leading 'atatestnon have all been of one kind-we will expand

many and Italy are our friends and we base our ideals on thelrs; we will help them all we can we dislike Britain and Amerien because they are helping Chinn; we do not want to fight, those countries, but we will if they try to slop our immutable polley of establishing Japanese teadership over all Asia.

It is, heartening news that Britain as thrown her forces to the borders of Malayn And that within the mighly stronghold of Singapore powerful air units are established rendy to take up the gauntlet if it' should be thrown down.

Thailand may find more need for her newly acquired nationalism if her guess that she was next on the list 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 waik- ing stick."

Certainly Britain does not want to take on any more commitments than sho han to; but when will Japan and her Axis Alles learn that the Empire'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 leam in the East a lesson from the West where, though the end of the lesson has not been reached, our re- markable ability is rapidly becoming na prominent as our immutable will.

*. FOR instance, there

the real story be

this scheme.

is theme that they seem already well fitted for this im

part of the battlefield. Portu-

ON THE COSTA DO SOL; ESTORIL, PORTUGAL.

:

Into this narrow channel are

between

trated there in the seventeenth

PORTUGUESE economy Methuen since the Treaty has been built up on the assumption of a considerable and specialised flow of trade with Great Britain. A'check in that flow, might bring disaster; but, fortunately, the British Ministry of Economic Warfare is aware that the commercial health of Portugal is a British atrategic interest of the first im- porlance. 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, whenpeace comes again, will be that political out- look, uncovered and modernised rather than introduced by Dr Salazar, which draws realism from the soil and idealism. from the philosophy of family and social relationships.

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