it is also desired that others besides the sons of Poi should Participate in the 1940 festivities. Portugal is bound to many countries and peoples by treaties and close ties GE friendship, historical or idealogical affinities, parental tenderness and also gratitude for favours received.
The peoples from one end of Asia to the other who owe their first contact with the western world to the Portuguese must not be forgotten.
is therefore the express wish of the Portuguese people that all those countries and races shall join in the great family reunion planned, not as strangers and visitors, but as children, brothers and dear friends who come to wish "many happy returns of the day."
The celebrations are divided into periods, viz, the Mediæval Cycle, during the first fortnight in June, the Imperial Cycle which lasts until the middle of July, and the Bra-ganza Cycle which begins on November 10.
The Committee of the Associacao dos Residentes Portugueses de Shanghai, which organization represents all the other Portuguese Associations in jhüi, have met several times to the matter and the following programme of festivities to be held in Shanghai is proposed:—
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