"Gibraltar is the price of betrayal" ... that allowed the defeat of Catalonia

Telling anecdote from 1967, when Spain began talks at the UN to recover the Rock, states that will be returned when Catalonia recover its pre-1714 status.

Barcelona (Incat) .- In 1967, the Spanish Government, in accordance with the principles proclaimed by the United Nations Charter, submitted to the United Nations Organization (UN) repudiation of the Treaty of Utrecht signed in 1713, but referring only the text of Article X, under which Spain was donated in perpetuity the Rock of Gibraltar to Great Britain.

International agencies agreed to enter the Spanish pending claim and both the Safety Committee and the Decolonization Committee of the UN, urged both governments to start negotiations in order to reach an agreement and resolve this issue. In the plenary of the organization, the answer  Lord Caradon , the British ambassador, could not be more clear and concise:

"Gibraltar is the price of betrayal ... and England return Gibraltar to Spain the day when Spain returned to Catalonia liberties that has taken away".

Direct reference to the Treaty of Utrecht and the reasons why I was signed, explained that Britain was an ally of Catalonia and the Austro -Hungarian Empire during the War of Succession in the Kingdom of Castile, faced with the French Bourbons who along with Castilian troops imposed - thanks to the "betrayal" inglesa- a bourbon also in Castilla, this lineage to the rear Kingdom of Spain then spreading. In other words, the reality is that Spain ceded Gibraltar and Minorca, by official and formal treaty to Britain in exchange leave it to its fate delivered Catalonia. And this is neither more nor less than the English ambassador explained by accepting that it was a betrayal.  READ THE TREATY: -  Treaty of Peace adjusted between the crowns of Spain and England in Ultrech