Foreign News: Threatened Rock?

While Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Government last week had its hands full defending Britain's domestic air defenses, from another quarter it was questioned on the security of nothing less than "The Rock'' itself. Was the Prime Minister aware, asked Her Grace the Duchess of Atholl, Conservative M. P., that Spanish Rightist Generalissimo Franco, with Italian and German aid, has so fortified the Spanish seacoast overlooking Gibraltar as to make this keystone of empire practically worthless?

The Duchess' disclosure had an air of authenticity because she is an M. P. who gets around, keeps her...

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