A Key to Victory : Spain. By Charles Duff. (Gollancz.
25. 6d. DOES all this seem fantastic and impossible?" asks the writer of this foolish and mischievous little book, after a hundred pages advocating the fomenting by Great Britain of a new civil war in Spain, with a view to putting the Spanish Republicans in power and concluding an affiance with them. The only answer con- sistent with sanity is in the affirmative. Such intervention as Mr. Duff hopes for "could quite easily be organised from Portugal" —apparently with the enthusiastic co-operation of Dr. Salazar. There are, however, two essentials : "We must find a new Wellington, but before that we must find a statesman with sufficient vision to see that to embark on a new Peninsular war is not to embark upon a harum-scarum military adventure, but upon one which contains the germs of a prodigious success." Admis- sion that those two conditions must be satisfied as a preliminary to intervention is reassuring. Spain, in such conditions, Mr. Duff points out, would be "a magnificent jumping-off ground" (we jump first from Portugal, and then from Spain) for the liberation of France. The attitude of the German army towards either saltatory exercise he omits to discuss.
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