SPAIN AS BASTION
Received »Sunday, 10- p.m. LONDON, Oet. 10. It is reported that United States naval offieers have just completed a thorough tour of port faeilities and possible beaeh landing sites along Spain's Atlantie and Mediterranean eoasts, says the British United Press Aladrid correspondent. The tour was made within a few days of a group of United States military offieers making a survey of the Pyrenees passes between France and Spain. The Associated Press correspondent in Madrid reports that Franeo, speaking at the Cordoba Provincial Parliament, declared that all Spaniards would defend th'eir counti'y "if ever an Asiatic horde attacks Spain." A British United Press dispateli from Lisbon states that Mr. James Farl-Oy, former United States Post-master-General, who was received by Franeo, had an audience with Dr. Salazar. They discussed aspects of the Lberian Peninsula, the pact between Spain and Portugal and the position of both countries*- in the fight against eommunism.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 October 1948, Page 5
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