to the British public which they represent. I do not forget 
      that Spanish policy did not oppose us at the two critical moments 
      of the war, namely at the time of the collapse of France in 1940 
      and at the moment of the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa 
      in 1942. But I also remember that throughout the war German influence 
      in Spain has constantly been permitted to embarrass the war effort 
      of Great Britain and her Allies, and that a Spanish Division 
      was actually sent to give assistance to our German enemies against 
      our ally, Russia. During that period the Spanish Government openly 
    pursued a policy not of neutrality but of non-belligeren
 
                                                            
 
 
His Majesty's Government have had to make many complaints 
      against the unnatural activities in Spain which I need not now 
      particularize since they have already formed the subject of repeated 
      representations to your Government by His Majesty's Embassy at 
      Madrid. I feel bound, however, to mention the arbitrary suppression 
      in 1940 of the International Regiment at Tangier in violation 
      of the treaties to which Spain was a party and the series of 
      speeches in which Your Excellency disparaged this country and 
      others among the United Nations and spoke of their defeat as 
               being both desirable and inevitable.         
 
                                                            
 
 
Now that the war is drawing to a close, and plans are being 
      made for the future of Europe and of the world, His Majesty's 
      Government cannot overlook these past actions of the Spanish 
      Government, nor can they overlook the consistently hostile attitude 
      towards this country of the Falange party which is officially 
      recognized as the foundation of the present state structure in 
      Spain, nor the fact that the Falange has maintained an intimate 
      relationship with the Nazi Party Dictatorship in Germany and 
      with the Italian Fascists. I am however less concerned with the 
      past than with the present and the future and my desire is to