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...destination for war correspondents this week was Lisbon. Much evidence indicated that Portugal, one of the five remaining neutrals of Europe, was preparing to play an active part in the war, and that her move would be to the Allied cause...
After he was ordered out of Italy, Calhoun did hitches for TIME in Lisbon, Ottawa, and Chicago, then joined our New York staff as one of our top writers in Foreign News. Early this August he took off for Cairo, and for the past two months he has been waiting in the Middle East to go into action with General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Ninth and Tenth British Armies...
News is sold in a Lisbon black market. Smuggled, uncensored copies of U.S. newspapers and magazines find their way to neutral Portugal in the hands of seamen or of Clipper passengers. There they bring fancy prices. The buyers: Axis agents who want the latest dope on U.S. strikes, race riots, political discords, and who flock to Lisbon's airports and wharves every time a plane or ship comes in. Single, uncensored copies of the New York Times have sold for as high as $60. One copy of LIFE brought...
General Castellano set off for Rome by a devious route. But the Badoglio Government, worried over his failure to report promptly, had sent out another mission to Lisbon. Again an Italian general was chosen, but now, as evidence of good faith, a captured British officer accompanied him. The officer was red-faced, one-armed, one-eyed Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, one of the Empire's famed warriors, who had been captured by the Italians in 1941. London's Express called General de Wiart a "real-life, elusive Pimpernel." Not obliged to return to Italy, he turned...
...performers (including Tamara) were killed in the Lisbon Clipper crash...