This is your outside front cover (OFC). The red line is the bleed area. www.navegante-omundial.com NaveganteCultural MundialThe Portuguese Newspaper Vol 2 Issue 9 2020 This is your inside front cover (IFC). This can be your Masthead page, with a Letter from the editor and table of contents, or, whatever you This is where you would normally place a full page ad etc. need or want it to contain. You can make the letter or table of contents any size/depth you need it to be. The red line is the bleed area. You can also have Letter and/or Contents on a different page from the Masthead. This is your inside front cover (IFC). This can be your Masthead page, with a Letter from the editor and table of contents, or, whatever you This is where you would normally place a full page ad etc. need or want it to contain. You can make the letter or table of contents any size/depth you need it to be. The red line is the bleed area. You can also have Letter and/or Contents on a different page from the Masthead. Letter from the Editor MundialThe Portuguese Newspaper Aristides de Sousa One of those measures was the right of refusal Mendes saved the for consular officials to grant or issue Visas, set PUBLISHER / EDITORA lives of thousands first in Circular Number 10, and reinforced a Navegante Cultural Navigator of Jews fleeing the year later by Circular Number 14 in 1939. 204.981.3019 Nazis during his tenure as Portuguese At the same time, in reaction to the Consul in Bordeaux, Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, in early EDITOR-IN-CHIEF France. November of 1938, da Veiga Simões, who was Mia Sally Correia antagonistic to Hitler’s policy and ideology, eMail: [email protected] As a Portuguese diplomat, de Sousa Mendes and to national socialism, wrote in one of his www.navegante-omundial.com was under strict orders to comply with orders long and frequent reports to Salazar: imposed by national dictator Antonio Oliveira “The Third Reich’s eliminatory zeal regarding de Sazalar’s right wing corporate authoritarian all the religious denominations -- Jews, etc., CONSULTANTS government, which required all Consuls to has one source and one end: to substitute Pedro Aires Correia obtain permission from Lisbon, for any Visa the religious truths of human and universal & PORTUGUESE EDITOR issued to a Jewish refugee. order that share a faith that joins them to all Maria José R. Marques Correia of mankind, with a religiousity exclusively His hair turned completely grey oriented to the Germanic conmunity, its mystic roots, its traditions, its future power.” PHOTOGRAPHY Michel da Silva for Navegante-O Mundial After sinking into a three-day depression And while de Veiga Simões advocated between June 13 and 17, 1940, de Sousa to Salazar only for his Jewish friends and INTERCULTURAL GUEST EDITORS Mendes emerged from his bedroom with acquaintances in high German society, de Tony Guerreiro, Multi-Media completely grey hair, and according to his son Sousa Mendes took a different road less Pedro Nuno, loudly announced, “from now travelled... Liz Oliveira, Poetry & Stuff on, I’m giving everyone Visas. There will be no Nahurira Rwamatooro, Via Africa more nationalities, races, or religions.” A chance friendship with a Rabbi Mike St. Lawrence, History Some say the duty of a diplomat; of INTERN any bureaucrat or public servant, is to No one can say for certain what happened follow orders without question. There is an in the late diplomat’s heart and mind during Selena Loureiro expression often repeated in government what he called a “strong breakdown,” but it circles as a reminder of the public sector’s is known with certainty that he offered safe ADVISORS 2020 neutral and impartial position; that is, the diplomatic passage to his friend Rabbi Chaim Lucy Andrade duty to “provide fearless advice and loyal Kruger and immediate family, who had fled Paulo Bergantim, Luso-Can TV implementation,” to the elected public the Nazis in Belgium. Kruger refused the Paulo Jorge Cabral, Consul officials, who are given the electoral mandate order, saying that he could not abandon the to govern, by the voting public. But that’s in a countless Jewish refugees flooding Bordeaux. João Pedro Correia democracy! How much more seriously then, Debbie Dunmall & Maria Parker would the expectations be, in a dictatorship, to An order defied; a matter of conscience Manny Martins-Karman follow orders without question? Mala Sachdeva; Mario J. Santos Speaking truth to power Years later in Lisbon, destitute and dishonourably discharged by Salazar’s Lisbon EDITORIAL COLLABORATORS yes-men, de Sousa Mendes would say, “if so Lauren Capri; Eduarda Gil Bureaucrats in the west often repeat another many Jews can suffer because of one Catholic Dr. Carlos A. O. Pavão; Tony Tavares expression; that is, “speaking truth to power” [Hitler], it’s all right for one Catholic [de Sousa Victor Lopes & Dr. Nadine Shelton -- along the veins of fearless advice, the idea Mendes] to suffer for many Jews.” is for public servants to provide the truth to PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLABORATORS those elected officials in positions of power, so Although Salazar came to be praised for that they can make informed policy decisions. his supposed neutrality during WWII and Claudia Angela Moniz, C.A.M. But again, that’s in a democracy! Portugal’s role in allowing Jewish refugees Nuno Pereira e Nelia Soares to escape persecution, de Sousa Mendes Tony Soares & Fatima Sousa, CSP Video Circular Number 10 of October 28, 1938 did not re-join the diplomatic corps during his life-time, and it was only in 1986 that COVER & INSIDE FRONT PHOTOS: he was post-humously re-instated, 20 years According to Circular Number 10, which was after the World’s International Holocaust Aristides de Sousa Mendes e família; addressed to consular representations across Memorial Centre, Yad Vashem, recognized Aristides e Angelina Mindes, Yad Vashem Europe, settling in Portugal was forbidden him as Righteous Among Nations in 1966. to Jews, although they were allowed entry on Portugal’s parliament took an additional 22 Photos not sourced are in the public domain tourist Visas for a period of 30 days. years after that, to post-humously withdraw all or part of the Creative Commons; Articles disciplinary charges against him in 1988. It was arguably not as anti-semitic an without a by-line are written in-house order as it was a practical one: Portugal The “outgoing bon vivant” de Sousa was (and remains) a small a country with Mendes was born into a wealthy Portuguese PRINTED BY: limited resources. Even as the Portuguese family, and upon facing an existential crisis Winnipeg Sun Commercial Print Division Ambassador to Germany of the time, Alberto to do the right thing, defied an order as a da Veiga Simões, was expressing his contempt matter of conscience. As a result, he was for German anti-humanism, he was also disgraced for his courage and moral fortitude concerned about a mass emigration of Jews to and died alone, in obscurity, in 1954; his 15 Portugal. children having emigrated from Portugal in desperation. Paradoxically, and to that end, da Veiga Simões warned Salazar of this “danger” and Among the tens of thousands he saved were NaveganteCultural proposed a series of measures to prevent this surrealist painter Salvador Dali and film-maker possible mass emigration. King Vidor. Mundial 3 These are your story pages. You can have one page stories, two-page stories, whatever you need. You can place storys, pics, ads... whatever you need or want it to contain. You can change the fonts, sizes, colours etc. You could also make these just photo pages with captions etc. Table of Contents Highlights Food and Drink – Comida e Bebida .................... 07 Health and Beauty – Saúde e Beleza ................... 08 Righteous Among Nations - Aristides de Sousa Mendes .... 10 Love in Times of Covid - Calisto-Tavares; Nicolau ......... 13 Parabens Fatima Aguiar Correia! ...................... 15 Terramota de Lisboa, 1/11/1774 ...................... 16 Combatentes Page – Página dos Combatentes ........... 18 History/Historia - Aristides de Sousa Mendes ............ 20 Covid-19 Update ................................... 22 Aristides de Sousa Mendes - Pesquisa ................. 25 Lauren Capri - Parts of a Journey ...................... 26 Horoscope, English ................................. 27 Nuno Pereira .......................................... 28 Prose & Poetry ........................................ 30 Horoscope, Português .................................. 3 2 Obituaries – Obituários .............................. 33 maquilagem e fotos por Diana Silva 4 Navegante Cultural These are your story pages. You can have one page stories, two-page stories, whatever you need. You can place storys, pics, ads... whatever you need or want it to contain. You can change the fonts, sizes, colours etc. You could also make these just photo pages with captions etc. Provavelmente não era uma ordem tão anti- TOP PRODUCER! Carta da Editora semita como era Aristides de Sousa Mendes salvou a prática: Portugal Consistently Number 1 REALTOR vida de milhares de judeus que fugiam é um pequeno dos nazistas, durante seu mandato como país com recursos @ Cônsul de Portugal em Bordéus, França. limitados Mesmo Como diplomata português, de Sousa o embaixador RE/MAX Office Mendes estava sob ordens estritas português na de cumprir as ordens impostas pelo Alemanha da 520 Academy Road in Winnipeg governo autoritário corporativo de época, Alberto Cell: 33-MARIO (336-2746) direita do ditador nacional António da Veiga Simões, Mario