Crisis in Gibraltar
SIR,—You printed on April 23 an article setting forth exclusively the British slant on the current Gibraltar dispute. In common justice, without any commitment of any kind, it would be interesting to have valid answers to several questions, among them: (I) How should we, or any self-respecting country, feel if, .say, the US held, by legal cession two and a half centuries ago, a chunk of our main- land, e.g. at Land's End? (2) If it is so right for such enclaves to continue, why did we do and say nothing to support our oldest ally, Portugal, when
India seized Goa not long since? (3) Is it reason- able to prefer the wishes of some thirty thousand foreigners, resident at Gibraltar, to those of some thirty million Spaniards? It is certain that only a tiny number of Spaniards, those concerned com- mercially, would vote against their. recovering this 49 Trinity Church Square, SEI
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