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## United Kingdom and France issued a declaration in which they ex pressed the hope "that leading patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards may soon find means to bring about a peaceful withdrawal of Franco, the abolition of the Falange and the establishment of an interim or caretaker government under which the Spanish people may have an opportunity freely to determine the type of government they wish to have and to choose their leaders." At the same time the State Department released the texts of fifteen captured docu ments? German, Italian and Spanish ? which demonstrate beyond the shadow of any doubt that in the summer and fall of 1940 Franco was thor oughly committed to entering the war on the side of the Axis. That Spain in the end did not go to war was justified by Franco as the inevitable result of her dire shortage of foodstuffs, oil products, transport facilities, munitions ? in short, of practically everything needed to wage modern war. The Caudillo also complained (in his conversation of December 7, 1940, with Admiral Canaris, then chief of Hider's foreign espionage organization) that a Spanish attack on Gibraltar would immediately result in an Allied occupation of the Cana

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Author

Robert Gale Woolbert

Publisher

JSTOR

Published

1946

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences