AFRICAN VICTORY
EFFECT ON SPAIN AND FRANCE j “The noise of a decisive British victory in Libya would be heard not only in Damascus, Bagdad and Teheran. It would be listened to with great respect in Madrid, where our march to Benghazi for the first time made the Spanish think that we might win the war, and our later retreat before the
' Germans produced a sad reversal of ! opinion. Spain more and more disI likes and fears the Germans, and there is one weapon of propaganda which would be stronger than any other to stimulate those feelings—the defeat in Africa of a powerful German force. Nor, if our Army could capture not only Benghazi but Tripoli and march up to the borders of French Tunis, would the effects stop in Spain. France also would feel the impact of advancing British victory. So closely is the ‘Middle East’ bound up with the West.” —“Yorkshire Post.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4560, 15 April 1942, Page 3
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