Show SPAIN COULD NOT BE ALLIES FRIEND no one could he be surprised that spain preserved a strict neut neutrality ralty in the great crent struggle of armageddon the liNt historical orical barriers between spain find and tile allied and associated powers wore were not to he surmounted the deepest bitter memory of the spaniard Is the napoleonic lo invasion valon find and the a agony ony of the peninsular war iven arter after a hundred years there could be no unity of sentiment between france and spain gibraltar though a failed faded cause of irritation still plava a part in spanish thought but the real hatred was for the united states and the final loss of the last remnants of the spanish colonial empire left rn in itching void in the breasts of a proud race the aristocracy were pro nerman hermlin the middle classed anti french As the king said boniv I 1 and the moh tire for the allies the best that could be a hoped for was that spain should be neutral in the ile and certainly I 1 she prospered hy by her lib abstention from it il winston churchill in cola colliers |