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...Portugal in a caravan headed by onetime Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland. Accompanied by members of the Bourbon-Parma family, onetime Empress Zita of Austria and her son Archduke Otto, pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, and five of his brothers & sisters arrived the next night. Already in jampacked Lisbon was Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot. En route was onetime French Premier and Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Also on the way was onetime Austrian millionaire Baron Eugen Rothschild and his American wife, the former Catherine Wolff of Philadelphia...
...morning last week the U. S. State Department instructed the U. S. Embassy in Berlin to let the German Government know that the S. S. Washington would sail from Lisbon that night loaded with U. S. refugees. The Washington, with 1,020 passengers aboard, duly sailed...
...highly trained, matter-of-fact Pan American Airways crews, flights from such far-flung bases as Hong Kong, Lisbon and Barranquilla have become routine-no more glamorous than domestic airline operation from St. Louis or Camden...
With war's spread cutting down the number of lands visited by U. S. vessels, European mail to and from the U. S. has piled up. To help lug it, Pan Am this week will step up its transatlantic service (New York to Lisbon) from two to three runs a week. Bolstered by an extra plane crew, transatlantic pilots, radiomen, mechanics will lie over between trips at Lisbon, may there hobnob with British, French and Italian airline men, all operating across Europe from neutral Portugal...
American Export Lines, whose development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea trade was the most profitable post-war achievement of the U. S. merchant marine, must now content itself with calls at Lisbon. But no strategic material from the Mediterranean (except perhaps mercury) is irreplaceable. And U. S. processors of cottonseed oils knew what to do about an olive-oil shortage; U. S. rayon and silk men shed no tears at the blockade of Italy; California growers saw a widening market for domestic wine. One product would be partly missed: cork, of which Mediterranean countries (plus Portugal) produce...