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Gibraltar And Spain

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Day
14
Month
April
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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It inay be objected that, although Gib raltar might be useless to us as agains Spain, it wotlld still, in wartime, be use ful to us as against any other power. I certainly might be useful to a very mod .fied exteut. It is nevertheless a matter of notoriety that Spain ardently desires to regain possession of the fortress, anc it is scarcely conceivable that, unless we were actually fighting for the protestion of Spanish interests, Spain would remain i'igidly neutral while another power was attempting to expel us from the rock. In order to secure the more or less active co-operation of Spain the other power wonld merely have to give some secret pledge that, having once gainec possession of Gibraltar, she would hanc t over without charge to its ancient owners. France, there is no doubt, would, vrith thinars standing: as thev do at present, be very glad to eee Spain take our place there, and though Italy might not like it she would noL spend a

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