New York, -Feb. 14. (GENERAL Franco, chief of the Spanish State, has refused, in spite of strong pressure by Mussolini, to grant Spanish aid to an attack against Gibraltar, it is learned in Vichy The message states that Mussolini mentioned every past favour by Italy to Spain and asked Franco to pay off the debt by providing bases for an attack, but Franco was said to have refused.
Franco, it was reported. explained that starving Spain could not risk a stating that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and Gen, Franco met at Mont-one night—United Press. War tack England while England pellier, France, yesterday but there probably to replace much of the mechanized machinery.
Movement across the Danube, reports from Bucharest said, also has been impossible for several days because of ice floes—United Press.
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