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...virtually a fact, except for such nervous little islands of democracy as Sweden, Finland, Switzerland (which is useful to the Germans as a clearinghouse for foreign exchange). France was practically in the war against Great Britain (see p. 21). Portugal was strengthening the defenses of its Atlantic islands, and Lisbon was a nest of Nazi schemers working to have those defenses used against the Democratic World and not against Totalitaria...
...Night in Lisbon (Paramount). They (Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll) meet in an empty air-raid shelter in London. He is a self-consciously cute American busily flying bombers to Britain. She is a rich and proper English girl dutifully chauffeuring a War Office Earl (Edmund Gwenn). He swears they made this date 10,000 years ago. She is baffled. He makes duck calls at her. She flees...
Warned that MacMurray is a "Disturbing fellow. Upset you, in the end," she nonetheless consents to fly to Lisbon with him. Says she: "I knew he loved me the minute he told me I smelled good." Plane seats for this clandestine journey are miraculously proffered by the Earl after she remarks: "I'm only going to be there overnight." Observes he: "That ought...
What he meant was that the documents planted in her luggage ought to succeed in trapping a ring of Nazi spies operating in Lisbon. They not only trap the spies but also ruin the loving couple's tryst. Whereupon, Miss Carroll and Mr. MacMurray, with the entire British Navy serving as shotgun, take off for the U.S. and marriage...
...post-war world. Pan American Airways announced it had ordered 40 four-engined Clippers for delivery in 1942-43. The trade describes them as high-speed, 80-passenger, 40-ton Lockheed landplanes. Costing at least $866,000 each, these planes will make the New York-London or Lisbon run in ten to twelve hours, give the U.S. daily 24-hour round-trip air service...