REFUSAL TO JOIN IN WAR
Reported Requests To Spain ' NEW VISIT BY BORIS i Received Februayr 15. 1.-15 a.m.i tjONDON, February 14. ' The “Daily Mail’s" correspondent, on the French frontier says Vichy reports state that General Franco again refused to join the Axis in the war against. Britain. Signor Mussolini, it is said, asked him either to assist the Axis in attacking Gibraltar or to allow German troops to cross Spain and grant Italy necessary sea and air bases. General Franco answered “no" to both plans.
It is uticunfirmedly reported from Belgrade that King Boris went to Germany today.
Lisbon announced that ex-King Alfonso of Spain signed a document in Rome on January .15 giving his youngest sou. Don Juan, full right to ascend the Spanish throne if invited to do so.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 121, 15 February 1941, Page 12
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