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However, before one year had passed, the rumour became a reality.
In October 1963, the governments of Lisbon and Bonn confirmed
the agreement granting Bonn an airport in the south of Portugal
for training v/ith supersonic airplanes.
Economic relations also became stronger to the point that in external trade the German Federal Republic is now the first
supplier of Portugal, followed by England and the United States.
— In the last five year, exports from the German Federal
Republic to Portugal have become twice as great as imports.
— The balance of payments in favour of West Germany is
about 200 million marks.
— Germany contributed 60 million marks for the construction
of Portuguese airports.
— Fifty percent of Portugal's imports of machinery,
vehicles and tools come from West Germany.
— The German Mining Company of Lobito in Angola exported
more than one million tons of iron ore in 1964, and expects
to increase production in 1965 to 2-|- million tons.
— Krupp invested more than one million contos (£ 12,500,000)
in the iron mines of Bid (Angola)alone.
— The fishing industry of Cabo Verde in 1964 became
totally dependent on West German capital.
— A new shipping line between Angola and South Africa was
inaugurated at the beginning of this year using ships of the
German Federal Republic.
— At the beginning of March this year, the German ship
owner Frank Fiser arrived in Louren9 0 Marques to study the
possibility of increasing the amount of shipping between
Germany and southern Africa, specifically Louren90 Marques
and Beira.
A German company was authorised to export tobacco from
Angola.  Other German companies are interested in exploiting
the same product in the region of Ganguelas, which will bring
much misery to the small African farmers of the region.
— In recent months Salazar imported more than 2,400,000
kilowatt hours of electrical energy from West Germany and
Switzerland.
— The Minister of Agriculture of the GFR, Dr. Werner
Schwarz, visited Portugal last year and declared himself
satisfied in having seen "the good application of German
investments."
— On the 26th of February the Portuguese Minister of
Justice, Antunes Varela, was decorated by the German govern-