Sentence of the day
In the 31 December
issue of the Spectator, David Crane reviews
Lisbon: war in the shadows of the City of
Light, 1939-1945 by Neill Lochery, and describes the wartime atmosphere of
Portugal’s capital under the dictator Salazar:
It is a city obsessed with
fears that never materialise, with kidnaps that never happen and plots that
come to nothing; a city of Allied and Axis spies and their informers, feeding
on false information in an endless and largely futile cycle of bribery,
blackmail, rumour and counter-rumour: a city, in short, so morally bankrupt
that even the Duke and Duchess of Windsor do not seem out of place.
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