Decline of Nazi influence in Portugal and marked lack of pro-German feeling despite intensive efforts to cultivate it were reported today by Leland Stowe, veteran foreign correspondent, in a dispatch from Lisbon to the New York Herald Tribun.
Declaring Nazi propaganda had been successfully counteracted by Great Britain, Mr. Stowe said: “But one need not stay in Portugal very long to discover there is no pro-German feeling among the Portuguese people. Actually, the Germans are unpopular, and for several reasons. A newcomer from America is quickly informed that Jews have lived unmolested for centuries in this forgotten Atlantic doorstep of Europe; that even the Spanish Inquisition did not succeed in transplanting anti-Semitism into Portuguese soil. One learns that the Nazi pogroms of last November were strongly resented by these friendly, warm-hearted Portuguese people.”
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