| Show Spain Could uld Not B Be Allies Friend No one could bo be sir s that Sp Spain In preserved a strict neutrality Ii the the great struggle le of or Armageddon The Tho historical barriers between SpaIn and the allied and associated lio powers ers were not to be surmounted The deepest bitter memory of or the tho rd Is the Napoleonic Invasion and nd the agony of or the tho Peninsular war Even after atter a hundred years there thero could be bo no unity of or sentiment bG- bG between be between tween France and Spain Gibraltar though a faded cause of ot irritation Irritation still plays a part In Spanish thought But ut the real hatred was for the United States and the final loss or of ortho the tho last remnants of ot tho the Spanish colonIal empire left lett an aching void old In the breasts of ot a n proud race The aristocracy y were pro German pro The Tho middle classes French anti-French As the king said Only I and tho the mob moh are for the Allies The best that could be bo hoped for was that S Spain aln should be neutral In the struggle and certainly she site prospered by her ller abstention from WInston lt It Winston Church Church- Churchill Church ill III In Colliers Collier's |
