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14.6.40 [George Orwell]

June 14, 2010 in British government, Franco, French Morocco, Germans, Hitler, Italians, Negrin, Paris, Political, Spanish, Spanish Morocco, Tangier, Underground, Versailles, War-time, advertising by orwelldiaries

The Germans are definitely in Paris, one day ahead of schedule. It can be taken as a certainty that Hitler will go to Versailles. Why don’t they mine it and blow it up while he is there? Spanish troops have occupied Tangier, obviously with a view to letting the Italians use it as a base. To conquer Spanish Morocco from French Morocco would probably be easy at this date, and to do so, ditto the other Spanish colonies, and set up Negrin or someone of his kind as an alternative government, would be a severe blow at Franco. But even the present British government would never think of doing such a thing. One has almost lost the power of imagining that the Allied governments can ever take the initiative.

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