The Archive · 1941

Diplomatic Bags Well

Guarded in Lisbon

Lisbon, Oct. 14.

Embassy officials in Lisbon decline io comment on allegations made during the spy trial in the United States that America-bound diplom fic bags were tampered with in Hsi Inquiries made by Reuters indicate that whatever the conditions were in the early days of the war, such stringent precautions are now being taken to protect documents that leak-

lags arrive from London sealed borders on the impossible. and leave Lisbon for the United

and are under loge and' key there-nder guard to and from the amba:

CUN ROT They are Reuter. peop!

Pacific route, the L However, "the freezing order inflicted by America first interrupted the usual flow.... Since a bottleneck was iñ- convenient, some scheme had to be worked out for the carriage of Americans back to their country and from America to Japan, and for Japanese to return home or go to the United States. The of the three vessels is a matter of mutual accommodation."

Asserting thet the psychological these sailings of. J nig Pacifie."—Domel.

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