Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cape Town, South Africa...
...sending you the account of the Battle of Cape Matapan, March 28, which was is-oped. The Italians were using colored tracers and plenty of them. It went on for quite a long time and eventually died out and we could see no more...
...situation was clear to all. Yesterday one of the British submarines constantly lying off Italian ports to watch for the enemy's coming out (just as Nelson's frigates, whenever there were enough, scouted the French and Genoese ports) had reported a strong Italian force hard by Cape Passero, on the southeasternmost tip of Sicily, steaming east. British forces had immediately set out from Alexandria for Suda Bay, Crete...
...Britain: to cut off the British Isles' supplies of food and war materials and soften them for the kill. At the same time Germany would try to cut the Empire lifelines. Since it is four times as far from the British Isles to Suez by way of the Cape of Good Hope as it is by way of Gibraltar, Britain would need four times as many ships if the Mediterranean were closed...
...seduction of Spain; England with food for the immediate present, Germany with promises of future prosperity and aggrandizement. But if Germany loses this skirmish, she may by-pass Spain and reach for the coast of West Africa, where she would be in a position to cut the Cape-route lifeline and draw the cord of strangulation tighter about Britain's neck...