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...From Lisbon came word of two recent decrees of the Portuguese Government. One forbade aliens to go to the Azores without first visiting Lisbon, getting a personal O.K. from authorities there. Presumably the ubiquitous, stiff-backed German "tourists" would get no visas...
Secondly, the Portuguese cracked down on the refugees who have been funneled through Lisbon from all Europe since the start of World War II. By a new law, refugees who do not have visas or immediate steamship or plane reservations must go to prison, pay for their keep (50? to $1.50 a day) while they are there. Stated reason for this decree was to keep wealthy refugees from buying up food supplies, creating a shortage, but it would also isolate fifth columnists disguised as fugitives from Hitler...
These precautions assuredly were not for the safety of her Axis passengers. They were to protect the returning U.S. consular officers and newsmen who will sail from Lisbon this week. If an Axis nation wanted an incident to plunge the U.S. in a shooting war, a torpedo in the West Point's side would serve neatly...
...Those at San Remo were held five days, were reported on their way to Lisbon this week...
...some butter." Crotchety old Bachelor James C. McReynolds, longtime Supreme Court Justice, "adopted" 32 British children, one Belgian. Dorothy Thompson arrived in England for a month's visit "to see my friends . . . for pleasure . . . to know what the British are thinking." Expatriate Novelist Kay Boyle flew across from Lisbon with her family of seven-biggest family the Clippers have ever carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale Broun passed his physical exam, expected induction within a month. Robert P. Patterson Jr., son of the Under Secretary...