I would in conclusion beg Your Excellency to believe that I would not have ventured to put the above case so frankly to you were it not for Your Excellency's own recently-expressed desire for a clarification of Anglo-Spanish relations, and for my conviction that the relations of friendship and cooperation between our two countries are desirable and that they can only be developed and maintained within the framework of the principles which I have I am your set out for Your Excellency's consideration. Excellency's faithful servant. Winston S. Churchill. |