Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
Neill Lochery
Language: English
Pages: 344
ISBN: 1586488791
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In this riveting narrative, renowned historian Neill Lochery draws on his relationships with high-level Portuguese contacts, access to records recently uncovered from Portuguese secret police and banking archives, and other unpublished documents to offer a revelatory portrait of the War’s back stage. And he tells the story of how Portugal, a relatively poor European country trying frantically to remain neutral amidst extraordinary pressures, survived the war not only physically intact but significantly wealthier. The country’s emergence as a prosperous European Union nation would be financed in part, it turns out, by a cache of Nazi gold.
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Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lochery, Neill. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. eISBN : 978-1-586-48880-2 4. Espionage—Portugal—Lisbon—History—20th century. 5. Neutrality—Portugal—Lisbon—History—20th century. 6. World War, 1939–1945—Economic aspects—Portugal. 7. Lisbon (Portugal)—History—20th century. I. Title. D763.P82L556 2011 946.9’4209044—dc23 2011021792.
Important stage in helping him develop his academic power base within the University in Coimbra.19 In later years however, the friendship of the two old housemates would be placed under great stress. Both men were destined to eventually leave the comfort and ordered life of Coimbra University and came to Lisbon. Once in Lisbon they were to move up rapidly through the respective ranks of the political and church hierarchies to assume the two central positions in Portugal: head of the government,.
A full frontal assault was then considered, but the chiefs would not recommend it. The CoS wanted the warning element of the plan to be dropped by the War Cabinet. The overall judgment was that the aims could be achieved from a military perspective, but that it would be no pushover if Salazar ordered the well-dug-in Portuguese garrison on the key islands to resist. Ronald Campbell had first formally introduced the topic of the use of facilities in the Azores in an indirect manner during his.
The opposition was confirmed during events that surrounded a political crisis caused by the elections .15 The opposition were derided by the British Foreign Office as being a motley bunch, who all came with different motives. 16 None of them, the British added, had produced any constructive ideas, short of singing the praises of democracy and winning some applause for doing so.17 The Americans added that the only motive that the opposition had was their own political ambition. 18 The other major.
Too clever for most of these plots to stand any chance of success. At the early stage of the war there was growing concern among the large and vocal Anglo community in Lisbon that the Germans were winning the propaganda battle. As one British expat noted, German propaganda was as fierce as ever. He went on to warn that the Germans were spreading ridiculous rumors about the British and the French, and that the Portuguese were not at all sure which was the winning side. Another British resident.