PALMA
LEADING investigator and Doctor of History at the Balearic University, Pere Ferrer, claims to have uncovered documents which reveal that Winston Churchill approved a top secret plan to spend millions of dollars on bribing a number of Spain's top generals to stop General Franco from entering the Second World War on Germany's side.
Ferrer told the Bulletin yesterday that the secret papers were unearthed at the Public Records Office in London and the Bank of England archives as well as in the archives in the United States.
Ferrer explained that, after Dunkirk in 1940, Churchill was extremely concerned about Britain's isolation in the fight against the Germans and reports that Spain was planing on entering the war on the side of Hitler.
There was also chatter about Germany planning to invade Gibraltar. The Germans desperately wanted to take over the Rock in order to take full control of the Mediterranean.