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LISBON, Portugal's capital, to-day finds itself through the fortunes of war the one remaining lung through which half a dozen countries of Europe can still breathe. The Nows Chronicle's Special Correspondent there, DAVID SCOTT, tolls the story of present-day life in this suddenly all-important city, and of the vital political background to the sconc.
►
YESTERDAY STRANGEST CAPITAL
morning I re-
ceived by post from London a large regis- tered envelope. Across the flap, which had been
IN THE WORLD
burst the tenuous boundaries that confine him now. But her He and that of her Empire de- pend on her aen communica-"
on the
slit by more than one terious Busques, who resemble the less, has galvanised what tions, and to keep these open
she must needs rely sleepy, easy- Phone 27778-9 censor on the way, was them, also spring. There is a was normally
forces of the other side. Yet strong negro and colonial strain going country into a busy cen-
their gümmed, alongside the among them, and they have tre of international traffic, these same forces, in familiar "Opened by been likened to the Irish by a negotiation and (not least) in struggle for victory, cannot avoid grievous damage to the Examiner 1234,"
Portuguese economy, ' other label with the
an-
Hongkong Telegraph more sinister legend:
Wednesday, June 11, 1941.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph"
Indieate news which is strictly copyright
shrewd observer.
A
under the provisions of the Telecommuni- wondered why it was so économic
cations Ordinance, 1910. Buch news - 31 bears the Indication "Up" is received in
The British blockade hits
trigue.
Behind-this facade of appar- *
⚫ent carelessness the serious LTOGETHER an cuter- business of the Portuguese Portuguese importers, manufac- "Direccion General de
prising, remarkable State ja conducted silently.
turers and shippers hard. We Seguridad, Madrid.” people, looking westwards and governed always by that striv- may be sure enough that our
The envelope contained a
southwards across the ocean for ing to preserve neutrality which battle, which is the battle of inspiration more than they have seems almost more difficult than democracy, is also the battle of new cheque-book from my ever looked to Spain.
the straightforward arts of all free men against aggres- is used by the Irongkong Telegraph to bank in London. I had
sions; but it is less easy to Now, after a twilit period of war.
preach that doctrine in a coun- reconstruction at Leading an almost monastic try whose leaders have thrown Hongkong on the date of publication by long in coming, and now I home and comparative eclipse life between his bachelor house- parliamentary either wright and forbid republications, Wondered more why it had abroad, the Portuguese sudden, hold and his office in the white the scrapheap.
gone through Madrid on its ly find themselves in the Euro- Parliament building on the hill,
Whatever may be the rival pean limelight once more. taking counsel only with a way to Lisbon, though a somewhat erratic, but on
With most of the Continent chosen few and hardly known, claims of democracy through the ballet-box and constitutional of Europe under German do except by name, to his GOVERNMENT is still mak- the whole effective direct mination, Portugal to-day forms
countrymen, a solitary man dictatorship as ideals of govern- ing efforts to reduce the air mail does exist between not only one of the last refuges theological student rather than bound by her geographical posi with the mind and heart of a ment: Portugal finds herself Colony's dangerously 'excess England and Portugal. The of peace but Europe's stepping-
a politician schemes and strives, tion and her military wealmess population, although the dif- mystery was solved when I stone to America, her only re- ficulties are so numerous as to looked at the address on the maining open channel for the day in, day out, for the double to tread the narrow path that
the United Press Ancelations. who ro
wholly or in part without previous
arrangement.
REPATRIATION
render the task apparently hopeless. Political conditions in the neighbouring countries
are such that ridding Hongkong
sent.
a
own
receipt of supplies from the purpose of keeping his country lies between: envelope: "Lisbon, Spain." New World, and one of the few solvent and keeping it out of
How many British business connecting links left between firms, I wonder, or at least their European
know
*
which is
31.9
war,
MY bank's mistake is an come the trade capital of free disaster.
AT
democracy
on, either
on
sho
side.
A
moment T the countries which, His task, though less in-
seems to be balanced' momentous clerks and secretaries, still con- though not themselves at war, mediately
than fairly securely on her neutral of its unemployed and unem-
fuse the capitals of Spain, and are surrounded or menaced by that of a Churchill or a Roose- tight-rope, with the contending ployable "guests" is no longer Portugal? How many British warring States.
velt, is perhaps as delicate and influences of the Axis and the question merely of "sending schoolboys
fg unenviablo as that of any English-speaking nations equal- At one stroke what was a statesman in the world to-day; ly matched them away." The truth ia, which, and how many English quiet backwater in Europe finds there is nowhere they can be men-in-the-street know where itself turned into a main line of Holding untrammelled personal Neither belligerent is yet rendy to find. Lisbon on the map of communications. Lisbon (once power in a country poised on a to upset this balance with a
knife-edge between contending clear prospect of success: described Hongkong's population con. Europe?
the key to the
forces, he has to steer his ship gestion presents a variety of
move by either would bring the Mediterranean, thought it lies on the Atlantic coast) has be- of State through a channel in other into the field. Meanwhile, problems;-so-many-thousands-
which one false move. may..spell such-influence-as-Portugal-can- are a virtual charge on the
exercise in this war of empires Colony, and in consequence are
odd reminder of the Western Europe. Its popula-
is used to prevent conflict from days, not far distant, when Por- tion has been greatly increased
spreading westwards. drastically affecting its econo-tugal, this amall, remote coun- by refugees, extra officials, bu- mic equilibrium; overcrowding, try tucked away in a corner of siness men and less desirable serious enough before the China Europe and seldom mentioned visitors from every country bound to the strictest official influence and the unique posi- hostilities, and trebly so now, in British newspapers since it which now looks to Portugal for impartiality though the bulk of tion of this country may have contributes towards the crea- ceased to be the scene of month- an outlet to the world beyond. tion and spread of disease, ly revolutions, meant nothing thereby gravely imperilling the but an evil memory of geogra health of the community; from phy lessons to the ordinary a defence point of view, these indigents present potential handicaps to successful opera- tions. whether military economic. Nothing, in fact, is more calculated to hinder the successful defence of the Colony
or
Britisher.
* Pomising.lung through ORTUGAL is the one
which half a dozen countries
Yet Portugal is not only "our breathe. Without the flow of oldest ally," as the after-dinner supplies through Lisbon and speakers on Iberian affairs love Oporto they would be stifled to remind us, but country with with the Axis Powers by the eight centurica of chequered slowly growing pressure of the but on the whole proud history British blockade.
in the event of a crisis than this behind it; a nation of seafarers This new-found importance vast army of dependents. like ourselves; the centre of a and activity give Lisbon and Government hos revealed big colonial empire, 25 times other centres of commerce in more than once that it is cease the size of the mother country, this country an air of busy pros lessly striving to find the solu-
perity very pleasant after the tion to the problem, The latest and the centre also of a net war-time atmosphere of most move, and one which at face work of cultural tradition and other European towns. value appears to hold out affinity spread widely in South brightest prospects of rea- America. The Portuguese are sonable results, is the creation Latins if you like, speaking a
Macao waters, from where por-
In Lisbon life is gayer, more abundant, keyed up to a faster
of a camp at Green Island. in Janguage which I find more like Pace than it over know in peace- time. The newcomer finds a sons wishing to return to their the peasant dialect of Northern community at peace and, at first ancestral homes, can be repa-Italy than Spanish. -
sight at any rate, enjoying. triated. That the scheme could But they are Atlantic, not plenty too. Peace and plenty ever reach the stage of prac-Mediterranean Latins; they in is not quite a true description of ticability is due essentially to herit their seafaring tradition Portuguese conditions, for the the hearty co-operation of the largely from the Genoese, the country as a whole is still poor Macao authorities. The camp Phoenicians and the forgotten and life for the peasants and is to be capable of holding 2,000 wanderers from whom the mys- low-paid workers is still hard. people, the oventual nim being.
But at least they do not live
of course, a constant stream of people returning to their homes given to this scheme. If, as it in the shadow of death like from Hongkong via the camp.
seems the authorities desire, it many of their fellow-men, and. a real wave of prosperity has The Hongkong Government is la to be a voluntary exodus, meeting the cost of construct coaxing will be necessary; this descended on a good part of the community. Hotels are always ing the camp and its manage can be best provided by Chinese crowded now, arul charge ac- ment is entrusted to the Red community feaders, the Chinese cordingly; restaurants, show Swastika Society. Free passage press, and enterprising forms places generally and all who will be offered from Hongkong of propaganda. Experience and the New Territories, and has shown that the Chinese have not done so well for years. supply the needs of foreigners returning evacuees who need ovacuees are loth to leave what the needs of foreigners have not nasistance will be provided with to them is the attractive haven done so well for years. travelling expenses both from of Hongkong; but, the needs of Hongkong to Macao, and thence the Colony are vital and ur- A new cosmopolitan life, not to their homes, by the Hong-gont; therefore nothing should bent on galety as in the pleasure kong Government."
ba loft undono which will assist centres of pro-war Europe, þut
Every encouragement, both in making the Greon Island producing a sort of brillance, by official and unofficial should be scheme a complete success. Its movement and variety, none
TEUTRAL though allied belligerent,
NEUTR one
to
A time may come when that
her public opinion inclines one their value as mediating agen- way while a powerful oligarchy cies. Until then the Portuguese. has other sympathies and other can only hope to live in peace, interests, Portugal stands truly, even though they live danger- and the deep blue sea. in this war, between the devil ously. They have at least the satisfaction of playing a new and useful part in the life of a On land she sees a new con- distracted Europe and playing queror knocking almost at her it with good humour and good gates, ready at any moment to will.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty.
"I ain't getting nowhere, Chief--the only secret I can get out of him is a plan, he has to cutmánoouvre his wifali
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