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Spain and the Axis “ The plain fact is that Hitler is in a position to do in France exactly what he wants. If he decides to march troops to Marseilles and Gibraltar he could do so in defiance and with little opposition. With France it might not pay him, because her colonies are still to a large degree free agents, and this might call for the gentler handling of the home Government. But with Spain there is no such difficulty. Spain is a proud and independent country, and from her experience in the civil war she knows that once Germans are in they are hard to get out. Her economic dereliction after that internal struggle is serious and still far from being repaired. Many of her wisest rulers are averse to sacrificing more of her young men in the service of Germany and adding to her present hardships the rigours of our blockade. They know that we have only the wish to be on good terms with their country, and that even now. amid ail our financial strains, we are helping her reconstructive work with large loans.”—Manchester Guardian.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21336, 6 February 1941, Page 6
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