[Turning to the defendant.] These are the words that Admiral Assmann records:
“C-in-C Navy continues: ‘Now our only small outlet for sorties is the Bay of Biscay, and control of this involves great difficulties and already takes up 10 days.’
“C-in-C Navy sees best strategic solution in occupation of Spain, including Gibraltar.”
Did you say that “the best strategic solution lies in the occupation of Spain, including Gibraltar”?
DÖNITZ: That is possible. If that is the wording you have got there, it is possible that that is the way I said it.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: My Lord, I was going to pass on from these general...
THE PRESIDENT: Sir David, have you passed altogether from C-158 on Page 69?
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: My Lord, I had, but I can easily return to it, My Lord.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the second sentence in Paragraph 1 appears to have some bearing upon the answers which the defendant has given.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: My Lord, I am sorry, but I tried to cut it as short—to the bare bone—and I am sorry if I omit matters.