SPAIN & GIBRALTAR
FRANCO’S STATEMENT NOTED. NO CHANGE INVOLVED IN BRITISH POLICY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, July '3l. Questioned on the reported remarks by General Franco on July 17, re-< garding Gibraltar, Mr C. R. Attlee said due note had been taken of the statement and that Britain did not regard it as involving any fresh departure in her Spanish policy. Accordingly no special action was called for.
Speaking in Madrid on July 17, General Franco for the first time endorsed the agitation for the return of Gibraltar. recalling that the mission entrusted to the Spanish kings was to hold Gibraltar and expand the Spanish rule in Africa. He told his service chiefs that there were 2,000,000 soldiers ready to support Spain's rights.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1940, Page 6
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