Show spain could not be allies fri friend en d no one could be surprised that spain preserved a strict neutrality la in the great struggle st of 0 armageddon tile the historical barriers between spain and the allied and associated powers were not to be surmounted tile deepest bitter memory of the spaniard Is the napoleonic inta invasion sion and the agony ot of the peninsular war even after aft er a hundred years there could bo be no unity of sentiment between france and spain gibraltar though a faded cause of irritation still plays a part in spanish thought but the real hatred was for the united states and the final loss of the last remnants of tile spanish colonial empire left an aching void told in the breasts of a proud race the aristocracy were pro germau tho the middle classes anti french As the king said only I 1 and the mob are for the allies the best that L t could be hoped for was that spain should be neutral in the struggle and certainly she prospered by her abstention from it winston churchill in Coll colliers fers |