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Last week the royal Rumanian household was told that it could not go to Europe. Indignantly the refurbished suite reserved on the Lisbon-bound Serpa Pinto was canceled. Wailed Madame Udarianu: "The trip was stopped. The trip was stopped." Rumor had it that the U.S. and Britain feared that Carol's return might upset delicate balances in the Balkans. Officially, the trip was off because Madame's health was "uncertain." Gloomily Carol ordered the bags unpacked...
Joseph Stalin's face appeared in Portuguese newspapers for the first time in 20 years. The Salazar dictatorship dropped its ban, and every morning paper in Lisbon blossomed with a picture...
...Songstress Jane Froman, brunette favorite of G.I.s. Since she was injured on her first tour, in the 1943 Lisbon Clipper crash, she has had 18 operations, is "finishing the job" on crutches. ¶ Comedians Jack Benny and Bob Hope, and Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, accompanied by full companies of stooges and satellites...
...extended Pan Am's present route to London, via Bermuda, through Europe and the Near East to Calcutta. American Export, which now flies to Foynes, Ireland, and Lisbon, was given two north Atlantic routes and will fly all the way to Moscow. T.W.A. was also given two routes, one via Newfoundland and Foynes to Bombay, the other via Lisbon and Rome to Cairo...
...routes they will fly, there was some question. Best guess was that: American Export would fly to northern Europe via Foynes (Ireland), Scandinavia and Moscow; T.W.A. would fly to London, then through middle Europe to Cairo; Pan Am would keep its present routes to Lisbon and Foynes, would be given a new route through the Mediterranean to Cairo. In addition, it is expected that Pan Am would get something it has long wanted: permission to pick up passengers in the Middle West, probably at Chicago or Detroit...