Posted on 02/22/2014 6:49:52 PM PST by DogByte6RER
In 1944, when the allies had in reach the win in the second World War:
The greatest compliment to grant it, “without any doubt, was the Spanish decision to stay out of the war. ...The critical moment passed; the battle of Britain was won. ...Another very serious crisis happened... before the Torch operation, i.e. before the landing of the forces of the United States and Britain in the North of Africa. (...) I have to say that I shall take it that Spain paid then a service not only to the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the Commonwealth, but the cause of the United Nations. For this reason do not sympathize with those who believe intelligent, and even funny, insult and offend the Government of Spain in any occasion”(Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II.)
In Winston Churchills The Second World War, Vol.2: Their Finest Hour Pages 519-530, the British Prime Minister wrote that last possibility of Hitlers triumph was foiled by Franco:
It is fashionable at the present time to dwell on the vices of General Franco and I am glad therefore to place on record this testimony of duplicity.. I shall presently record even greater services which General Franco rendered the Allied cause.
“Muslim logic’’. A contradiction in terms if ever there was one.
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