. Franco's War Record
SIR,—Mr. Wilson Harris, in his review of the third volume of Winston Churchill's war memoirs, quotes, as evidence of General Franco's sym- pathies with the Allies, Hitler's despatch to Mussolini of December, 1941. The despatch makes clear that Franco's refusal to collaborate with the Axis Powers arose from the fact that "he was profoundly troubled by the situation, which he thought had deteriorated." That Franco should regard Allied recovery as a deterioration of the situation is hardly convincing evidence of his pro-Allied sympathies, and can hardly be weighed in the balance against his formal attacks on the democracies and the military aid furnished with his approval to fight for the Axis cause. The truth would appear to be that Franco was out to spot the
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