This is the second volume of the Series dealing with Portugal and the Spanish Civil War. The excruciating descriptions of the Terror unleashed in Spain by the «Red» revolutionary forces, namely the merciless religious persecution, raised a strong wave of sympathy for the rebels in Portugal. The indignation and solidarity of civil society, which had overcome even the usual Portuguese atavism of giving Spain the cold shoulder, was topped by the Portuguese government's manoeuvres of vigilance and containment to prevent the conflict raging next door from spilling into the country. Prime Minister Salazar believed the Spanish Civil War to be «an international struggle in a national battleground» and decided to act accordingly, sparing no effort in alerting Europe to the fact. Indeed, since the beginning of the war in Spain, the KomIntern tried to quarantine Portugal and throw it on the Index's bonfire, using media campaigns such as the one over the rebels' takeover of Badajoz.