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Lisbon Portugal Post Newsletter 13 08 18.Pdf THE AMERICAN LEGION NUNO ALVARES PEREIRA POST - PO 01 August 18, 2013 NO COMMITTEE MEETING Gilbert Wells, Adjutant There was no committee meeting in The American Legion August and I am just getting around to Portugal Post #1 the Newsletter, Rua Dr A B Vasconcelos 9 PT-2705-088 COLARES, PORTUGAL My computer crashed with a virus and I just had it repaired. TEL (351 21) 929 1372 [email protected] 2014 MEMBERSHIP This year it is possible to pay your dues RBL WAR STORIES online by visiting the following website: www.legion.org/renew While I was Secretary of the Royal British Legion in Portugal prior to 2000 a request THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS HAVE went out to collect war stories and PAID experiences dating back many years. I Adalino Cabral, LIFE volunteered and have been collecting them. Mario Fonseca The Treasurer of the RBL, Stewart Austin, Gilbert Furtado requested that these stories be posted on David Higgenbottom the RBL Portugal Branch website and this Wendell Owens was done by the Chairman of the Portugal Guillermo Vasquez, MD LIFE Branch, Desmond Briggs, with some help =============================== from RBL HQ in London. Since there may now be others out there who also have interesting war stories to tell OFFICERS or just stories relating to military service or RBL service the RBL website has an additional page at the website called Cdr James Pritchard 91 949 0833 [email protected] “Membership Forum”. Adj The website is below: Gilbert Wells 351 21 929 1372 351 91 873 2689 cell http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/branches/p 1 VC Michael Soares 401 847 3805 ortugal/membership-forum Cell 91 691 5158 [email protected] Among the War Stories you will find the report of Lewis T Watty who was rescued from the Los Banos Camp outside Manila on February 23, AmLeg PO 01 - 1 - August 2012 2 VC Open Tres Gilbert Wells 21 929 1372 91 873 2689 JA James Pritchard 91 949 0833 1945 along with 2000 other allied prisoners of the th Japanese by the 11 Airborne Division. War and Propaganda in the Gilbert Wells, Adjutant PO 01, WW II veteran of Twentieth Century the 11 th Airborne Division. Conference Venue: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Nova University of Lisbon PORTUGUESE FISHERMEN’S MEMORIAL FARO, PORTUGAL 11-12 November 2013 On November 30, 1943 a US Liberator bomber crashed into the sea some miles from Faro in the South of Portugal. Five of the 11 man crew were killed in the crash and six survived. Call for papers The crash occurred close to a 5 meter fishing boat manned by Jaime Nues, Jose Mascarenhas and Jose’s 13 year old son, Manuel. They immediately abandoned their nets and went The Twentieth century was fertile in experiences about rescuing the six survivors, two of whom on the power of propaganda in war context. From were badly injured. the First World War to the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, the Portuguese Colonial War, Conditions were bad on the moonless night but Nunes and Mascarenhas provided what sucour the Cold War, the war in Bosnia and the Gulf war, they could to the drenched and shattered crew. there were several occasions where propaganda They gave them what they had on board. They stud itself as one of the combat arms. were obliged to wait for the incoming tide that would permit them to row their heavily laden craft to shore. They reached the fishing harbor in the The First World War was the first conflict where st early hours of December 1 . In 1999 Jaime the States realized for the first time the importance Nunes’ courage was recognized through the of propaganda as an instrument of war. It then award of a plaque presented to him by an official becomes clear the importance and potential of of the American Embassy. graphic communication. From then on, For further information and instructions for propaganda stated to be seen as an essential tool, donating to the proposed memorial go to: capable to connect the battlefront and the home front, a galvanizing instrument capable of making www.portuguese -fishermans-memorial.org the populations accept the “inevitability” of war and or contact the sacrifices that occurred from there. [email protected] Propaganda appeared as a representation, often with pictorial expression of the national identity in combat, extolling the virtues of national armies and making evil representations of the enemy, presenting him in a dehumanized form and instigating hatred between civilians and the AmLeg PO 01 - 2 - military, while eliminating the notionAugust of guilt or 2012 responsibility of government leaders. Analysed in the eyes of propaganda, wars always emerged as an inevitable consequence of civilizational The meeting includes papers given by invited clashes: we fight for an ideal, we struggle for a speakers and presentations submitted through a common interest. call for papers. As the importance of home front grew in The selection of proposals will be guided by the importance in contemporary conflicts propaganda purpose of ensuring maximum quality and became more and more sophisticated. Ministries diversity of topics. were created to think and manage propaganda, huge sums of capital were invested, and all mass Submission: February 1st to June 1st 2013 media, developed in the late nineteen hundreds st and in the first decades of the twentieth century Results announcements: July 1 2013 were used by the States: press, radio, television Please send us: title of the paper, abstract (700 and film. words), affiliation and academic CV (1 page) Propaganda represented the sacrifice of soldiers Working languages: Portuguese and English in war and praised the power of the country. It has (simultaneous translation to be confirmed) been around these images that all over the world entire populations were mobilized on the expectation of victory. Through the static image of printed posters or the newspaper news projected Organizing committee in cinemas all over the globe, governments sought Maria Fernanda Rollo (IHC and FCSH-UNL) to promote a patriotic spirit, encouraging the effort of individual sacrifice by sending a clear set of Ana Paula Pires (IHC-FCSH-UNL) messages that directly appealed to the voluntary enlistment in the armies, messages that explained Noémia Malva Novais (Ceis20 – and FCSH-UNL) the important of rationing essential goods, of the intensification of food production or the purchase of war bonds, exacerbating feelings, arousing emotions and projecting an image divided Send your identification (name, institutional between the notion of superiority and the idea of affiliation and email address) and the paper abstract by email to: fear of the opponent. [email protected] From press, in the First World War, to radio in World War II, to television and cinema from the 1950s onwards, propaganda proved to be a weapon as deadly as those managed by soldiers in the battlefield. That’s why it is essential to analyse and discuss the topic of War and -- Propaganda in the Twentieth Century. Ana Paula Pires This confer ence is organized by the IHC and the CEIS20 and is part of the Centennial ProgramCLASSIFIEDS of the Great War, organized by the IHC, and the InternationalAmLeg Centennial PO 01 Program coordinated by - 3 - August the Imperial 2012 War Museum in London. 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