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Thirty-six countries were involved in the exchange of what might reach as high as 10,000 persons, shuttling, under Swiss and Spanish auspices, in channels between New York, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Lourenço Marques. It was a headache for the U.S. State Department and a heartache for many of the Axis nationals, whose positions ranged from accredited diplomats and consuls to suspected fifth columnists and trade "experts" booted out of Latin America. Included were ordinary citizens and nondiplomatic "notables" accepted for repatriation, newspapermen, hundreds of wives, children and dogs...
...main virtue of "The Lady Has Plans" is that while Nazi spies, hidden blueprints and intrigue abound throughout, they are at all times kept subservient to the main aim of being amusing. The result is a lightweight comedy which has Lisbon and the war as a background but no pretensions to social significance. It is, in fact, concerned mainly with the attempts of various espionage agents to uncover Paulette Goddard's back. They think she is a certain woman spy who has had U. S. naval blueprints tattooed on her back, and they spend a good deal of the picture...
...When the Lisbon correspondent of the Monitor was expelled by Portugal," he explained, "he covered substantially the same news from New York...
Fleeing from Poland to Italy and then through a war-torn France to Lisbon and the America-bound steamer "Excambion," Waclaw Lednicki, visiting professor of Slavonic literature has managed to keep one precarious step ahead of the Gestapo...
After escaping the grasping tentacles of the Gestapo in Poland, Lednicki became an aid of the Polish government in exile at Anjou in France and was in Paris when Marshal Potain announced the Armistice in June 1940. Securing a transit visa from a kind French official he journeyed to Lisbon, where he received an American visa and came here to assume a post offered him by Harvard...