When is being neutral not being neutral?
Portugal The opinion of most people about the involvement of Portugal in WW2 , is that they were neutral, but they were far from neutral if you read behind the obvious. While not being actively nvolved the government had two views on the action of the Allied, and Axis activities. For Germany , the policy was we'll ket you use the country, but we want a payment ASAP. For the UK and USA involvement the attitude was pay us when you can. History dictates that Portugal, and the UK had an interest going back centuries which helped form this plan. Other than Franco allowing german troops in Spain , you have to recall that both the UK, and Portugal have a history of conflict with Spain going back to Queen Isobel .