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When the orchestra was scheduled to play in Lisbon last year, 500 Nazi "music lovers" applied for Portuguese visas in order to attend the concert in person. Portugal, suspecting the Nazis' lust for music, refused...
Frederick J. Harrigan, Lisbon, N. H.; Robert D. Hill, Wilmore, Ky.; John A. Holabird, Jr., Chicago, Ill.; Quentin M. Hope, Cambridge; John W. Hursh, Duluth, Minu.; Robert A. Keller, Cleveland Heights, O.; Leif L. Kunden, Columbus, Ind.; Robert W. Komer, St, Louis, Me.; Herbert J. Komer, New York City; Joseph H. Laird, Dearborn, Mich; Murray A. Lampert, Kew Gardens, N. Y.; William Land, Mattapan...
Italy has had a visible sense of humor, from the time of the commedia dell 'arte. Italians can still crack jokes (however unoriginal) about their miseries. From Lisbon last week New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, on his way home from Rome, sent revealing samples: > Benito Mussolini visited a fortuneteller who told him that he would die on the eve of Italy's greatest holiday. She was unable to tell him just which day that was. When he asked his wife her opinion, she replied: "I know. It's the day after...
Converging on Lisbon at the same time were 125 Americans from disillusioned, heartsick Italy. The two groups, exchanged for Axis nationals rounded up in the Americas, were soon to sail for home. By then the argument over which country it was best to be out of might be settled. First accounts last week gave the edge in dullness to Germany, the lead in human misery to Italy...
Most anxious not to return (because of the bleak life in Germany) and most stuffy about arrangements were the Germans. In New York, where the Drottningholm was making ready to carry 940 Axis repatriates home via Lisbon, they denounced so loudly the mixing of diplomats and notables that the sailing was all balled up. In Brazil they protested the accommodations on a ship especially refurbished for a Brazilian-Axis exchange via Lisbon. In other South American countries, acting on their own initiative, they asked permission to stay even if interned. Others wangled or wandered into Argentina and Chile, only...