Friendship with Spain is a subject looming largely in the minds of the Western democracies at present. The Franco regime, while not favoured in many Western quarters, has been receiving credit of late not only because of its opposition to Communism, but because of a belief, rightly or wrongly held, that Franco did not allow Hitler to move his legions south to Gibraltar. With Gibraltar (pictured above) in Nazi hands, the whole North African strategy of the Allies in the recent war would have had to be recast. Today, with the atomic bomb in hand, places like the Rock of Gibraltar have lost the true meaning of the word “rock,” and are thought of more in terms of “rubble.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 13 October 1948, Page 5
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119Friendship with Spain is a subject looming largely in the minds of the Western democracies at present. The Franco regime, while not favoured in many Western quarters, has been receiving credit of late not only because of its opposition to Communism, but because of a belief, rightly or wrongly held, that Franco did not allow Hitler to move his legions south to Gibraltar. With Gibraltar (pictured above) in Nazi hands, the whole North African strategy of the Allies in the recent war would have had to be recast. Today, with the atomic bomb in hand, places like the Rock of Gibraltar have lost the true meaning of the word “rock,” and are thought of more in terms of “rubble.” Wanganui Chronicle, 13 October 1948, Page 5
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