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Portugal remained neutral throughout the six years of war, and the newspapers and the government portrayed the country as an oasis of peace in a world at war.
The image of an oasis is perhaps too idyllic. The country escaped the horrors suffered by others, but the population and the different parts of the empire - from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean - suffered great hardships.
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