respectively have experienced during the present conflict. 
 
                                                            
 
 
The deduction is clear: does it suit Britain and Spain to 
      be on terms of mutual friendship? I have no hesitation in asserting 
      that it does, and, the greater the destruction of the German 
             nation, the more imperative it will be.        
 
                                                            
 
 
Having established the need for such a friendship, let us 
      pass on to review our present relations with Great Britain. We 
      cannot entertain any great illusions on the subject, and indeed 
      we shall have to recognize that those relations are not exactly 
      cordial. For, notwithstanding the generous sentiments voiced 
      by Mr. Churchill and the good will of our own Government, there 
      has been no dissipation of that atmosphere of uneasy hostility 
      which is perceptible in Great Britain and which naturally leads 
      to retaliatory action in the various sectors of Spanish opinion. 
      Neither the British press - including Governmental organs - nor 
      the British wireless has ceased to show periodically a hostile 
      attitude towards Spain, her regime and even towards her Leader: 
      sometimes the tone has been rude and peevish, and at other times 
      they have used insidious phrasing or subtle allusions.
 
                                                            
 
 
Of still greater importance, however, is this hostility when 
      it is discernible in official presentations or when attempts 
      are made to justify it in terms of ideological differences - 
      this from a nation like the British, traditionally accustomed 
      to getting on with the various peoples of the world, whatever 
      their system of government or their ideologies: here you have 
      an attitude which, by its obtrusion into the domestic sphere, 
      has roused every good Spaniard and has produced regrettable consequences 
                         in the country.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
Great Britain should not forget that the relations of the 
      present time are an immediate consequence of those of the past, 
      and that such relations as we may now maintain are bound to have 
      a considerable influence on those of the future.