Responsible Britons continued to envisage the possibility that Herr Hitler might provisionally shelve Balkan operations and drive through Spain to Gibraltar and even directly attack Britain.
Authentic information received here revealed a recrudescence of German political pressure on Spain to which much importance has been attached.
Authoritative sources also reckoned with the prospect that the Germans would continue to strengthen their forces in Tripolitania in order to re-grieve the Italian debacle. But they considered this less probable than a German offensive in the Balkans or through Spain, Balkan envoys here believed that Greece and Turkey would remain the next victims in Germany's timetable—United Press,
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