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23 - 2 - Poreign Office must give them a special position, so that dgs Foreign Office should present special Vert, for the routine work in Lisbon to have a very energetic man from don Ante himself. Sir Ronald Huge Caapbell was last in Paris and of l935/l939 envoy in Belgrnd. He was born in l883 as the son of a Under-Secretary of Foreign Office, since l907 in the Foreign Office and from l9l3/l9l6 private secretary of the British Ambassador to Petersburg, Lord Carnock (father of Harold Nicolson). 19le/i9l9 he was secretary of Lord Hardinge of Panhorst and denaoh to Lord Curzon. His most important diplomatic area was France: Councillor in Paris l928 and Secretary of State 1929/l935 and finally Ambassador seitl939, in between envoy in Belgrade. In summary, it may well be said that Cass must be given great attention to the change on the British embassy here and that it would be worthwhile to observe the most intimate of these British political headquarters on the continent. The following points can be noted in the external signs of English activity in Portugal: since the beginning of the Italian campaign against Greece, the press has had an even more pro-English attitude. The very carefully weighed and systematic delivery of the press in London and here in Lisbon, too, by the English, above all, not keywords on which headings, messages and articles can be placed, and in which the new phase or turn of the war is again mentioned, have not remained here without a scourge of public opinion. Recently the screening of the new propaganda film began here: "Convoy" under the Portuguese title: "Der Löwo der Meere", clso in conscious reference to the film "Dar Löwe hat Flügel" (The Lion Has Wings), an artistically miserable product, but with a catchphrase fixed in the brain: The new film is for a country like Portugal very much more important, because the advertising of Portuguese sailors and the whole question of convoysyst play a big role here. (A large display with an image in "O.Seculo" pointed to the filn.) Also striking is the now much larger pre-purchase of 'line pins with the wings and signs of the Royal Air Force, which are bought and rejuvenated by young people much as synpathy badges, but perhaps not so much a political intention of the wearer - 3 -