Article: An Anglo-Spanish nightmare. (relations: Spain and Great Britain)

KING JUAN CARLOS of Spain could charm a republication off a barricade; Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox is the kind of ambassador who makes diplomatic society respectable. Both men have worked devotedly to improve relations between Spain and Britain. The King even went to England last year to help commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1558. (Oddly, his London cousins forgot to come to La Coruna this year to commemorate the defeat, in 1989, of a much bigger English invasion force whose commanders were so incompetent that half their men were killed and a quarter deserted.) Sadly, though, as Gordon Lennox' mission to Madrid comes to its end, one must report that he and ...

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