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...week, but he had not quite reached the end of his diplomatic tether, although disasters less terrible than the Libyan rout have toppled regimes in every century. With bases in the Balearic Islands, in Spain and in Spanish Morocco he might still retrieve his position in the Mediterranean; with Ceuta in Morocco he might even make Gibraltar untenable and cut one of Britain's supply lines...
Both these beliefs are based on the fact that during the Spanish Civil War, Germany took occasion to install, ostensibly for Dictator Franco, an untold number of huge coastal guns not only at Algeciras and Tarifa on the European side but also at Fort Hacho (Ceuta), Punta Blanca, and other points on the African side...
...rounded Europa Point, Gibraltar's southernmost tip. As she did so a Rebel cruiser hove into sight from the African shore. Six more Rebel warships, cruisers, destroyers, minelayers soon joined the chase. Guns from the 10,000-ton cruiser Carnarias, pride of the Rebel fleet, boomed. Batteries from Ceuta. in Rebel-held Spanish Morocco, some 15 miles across the Straits, bellowed. The destroyer, outclassed, nonetheless elected to fight. A shell struck the Jose Luis Diez's forecastle, killed four men. One of her own guns exploded and killed more of her crew...
...their offensive northeast of Madrid for a gain of twelve miles, hurtled through in the Cordoba sector 13 miles, and delivered their first major blows outside of Spain proper by sending a fleet of bombers and the battleship Jaime Primero across the Straits of Gibraltar to shell and strafe Ceuta, important supply base in Spanish Morocco which, ever since the war began, has been Rightist. Snug in Gibraltar last week Britons saw dense clouds of smoke erupt from Ceuta, suggesting Leftist success in setting fire to Rightist docks and warehouses crammed with food and munitions...
...these rumors were considered "propaganda-in-reverse"-a British attempt to repeat the supremely adroit French move which recently kept the Reichswehr out of Morocco (TIME, Jan. 18). In that case the French Cabinet circulated to the world press the deliberate lie that German forces had already landed at Ceuta, whereas the French Secret Service knew they only planned to do so. Exposed in advance, Dictator Hitler soon professed his "non-aggression," landed no Germans in Ceuta, and Der FÜhrer may not strike at Czechoslovakia during the Coronation if his Nazi schemes are sufficiently anticipated and aired...