Note: be in position on the FrancoSpanish Moroccan frontier within 5 days of leaving Southern Spain. Gibraltar if still in our hands, would be an embarrassment to the movement of troops by sea. If Gibraltar was lost, but the Spanish in Morocco were still hostile, the first formations could not be in position in less than 21 days, and even this presupposes that the French fleet was not operating against the Germans, in co-operation with the land forces in French Morocco. 3. An advance through Turkey to the Straits (A.P.S.(41) 3.