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Less than 60 days ahead of elated American Export was a scheduled flight to Lisbon with mail & express, in 14 months a regular passenger service. More, the newborn line expected to do it non stop and pare Pan Am's eastbound flying time from 23 to 20½ hours. For that American Export relied on three four-motored Vought-Sikorsky 8-443 to be delivered by United Aircraft Corp. eleven, 14 and 16 months from now. Carbon copies of the U. S. Navy's new long-range bombers (with mail compartments substituted for bomb racks), the 175-m.p.h...
Still a refugee in Lisbon, the Duke himself was "very happy indeed." As to how the war was going, he observed: "It's frightfully confusing, isn't it?" The Duchess was worried about the fate of U. S. Ambassador to France Bullitt, who subsequently turned up in Spain. "I'm particularly interested," said she, "because he's got the keys to my house." The democratic Duke noted that food in Spain had been available in quantity only for those with money. "It certainly shows how terrible war is for the people of a country," said...
From the big Labor Building near the League of Nations Palace in Geneva, Switzerland, onetime Governor of New Hampshire John Gilbert Winant, director of the International Labor Office, followed the exodus of League officials, journeyed through France and Spain to Lisbon...
...Lisbon, to confer upon Portugal's Dictator-Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar the Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, flew a British mission, led by H. R. H. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent...
Last week they crossed the Spanish border in a dusty motorcade of servants and attendants, showed up at the Ritz in Barcelona. No, they were not going to America. All the Duke and his Duchess wanted was to get on to Madrid, then Lisbon, then England. The Spanish did not take Edward's military career seriously enough to intern him as a belligerent...