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Died. Dona Maria Teresa de Barros Caetano, 64, wife of the Portuguese Premier; in Lisbon. Suffering from mental illness for the past twelve years, she lived so anonymously that most Portuguese did not even know her name...
Jean Mayer intended to do graduate work in physiology at Harvard when, in 1939, he enlisted in the French Army. In 1941 Mayer found himself barred by the German Army from following DeGaulle to London. He went to Lisbon and from there to the United States. From March 1941 to March 1942 he worked on a chemistry research project at Harvard, waiting impatiently for clearance by the FBI to rejoin the Free French Forces in England. Mayer was reactivated in the spring of 1942 and joined a convoy in the Notrh Atlantic. "I was torpedoed off Halifax soon after...
...adversaries that formed against them last week. Longshoremen in Marseille and Genoa refused to handle either Spanish or Soviet cargo ships. Italy's Communist Party blasted the Soviets for sullying the image of socialism. Italian right-wingers, meanwhile, accused Madrid of doing the same to conservatism. In Lisbon, the Spanish ambassador got a dressing down from a delegation of 40 Portuguese journalists -none of whom have ever been particularly vocal about murders of political dissidents in their own country...
...hundred Guineans were reported killed. The number of killed and wounded among the invaders was unknown, but about 100 were captured. Three Europeans -including a five-year-old Yugoslav girl -were killed in the fighting, which went on for some 40 hours in the capital. Lisbon denied any Portuguese connection. In a similar episode, however, Portuguese aircraft recently bombed Senegalese border villages from which guerrillas had been attacking Guinea-Bissau (the attacks quickly ceased...
...copies in 45 languages after its publication in 1929; in Locarno, Switzerland. A classic of pacifism, All Quiet focused on the tragic destiny of the defeated German soldier of World War I. The best of his later novels (Arch of Triumph, The Road Back, The Night in Lisbon) dealt with war-wasted human remnants moving across a charred European landscape. Remarque, whose second wife was Screen Actress Paulette Goddard, once said that "hatred is not a good medium for one's lifework"; his own medium as a writer was pity and terror, conveyed in compelling prose and an exact...