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Last week Franklin Roosevelt appointed as American Commissioner his well-stuffed old friend Herbert Claiborne Pell, 59, of Newport, R.I. Best remembered job of Diplomat Pell was as U.S. Minister to Portugal, where he benevolently, talkatively steered hundreds of jittery refugees and distinguished Americans through Lisbon...
From his home on Staten Island (where the F.B.I, arrested him this week) Spy Lehmitz kept close tabs on ship movements in New York harbor, picked up more information in bars from loose-lipped soldiers and sailors. To report all this in letters to Nazi agents in Zurich and Lisbon, old-fashioned Spy Lehmitz used an ancient device: between the lines of letters about Victory gardens and California sherry, he wrote his messages in invisible ink. Lehmitz pleaded guilty of espionage. U.S. authorities bugled: "One of the most important arrests...
...British Overseas Airways station at London knew the weather had roughened over the Bay of Biscay. But it was nothing unusual for the regular flight of the big Douglas liner from Lisbon. Then, suddenly, came the voice of the Dutch pilot over the radio: "I am being followed by strange aircraft. Putting on best speed. . . . We are being attacked. Cannon shells and tracers are going through the fuselage. Wave-hopping and doing my best." Then silence...
Next day a Berlin communique claimed an enemy transport downed over the Atlantic. London announced the Douglas overdue and presumably lost, with a four-man crew and 13 passengers, including Actor Leslie Howard. For the first time one of the unarmed commercial planes of the Lisbon-London services, running regularly since 1940, had been shot down...
...vanished Douglas had taken off from Portela airfield outside Lisbon, an international junction shared by Allied and Axis planes. The afternoon transport from London used to bring English newspapers for the German Embassy. Over this line, via Switzerland, passed information on war prisoners. The planes using Portela enjoyed an unwritten guarantee of safe conduct...