Word: gibraltarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Queen Victoria ruled the waves, Lord Palmerston sent the fleet to blockade the port of Athens simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
Indian and Pakistani newsmen, who had read of Philip's informality and friendliness, were startled by his repeated rudeness. But it was an old story to British reporters, who still recall the duke's 1957 visit to Gibraltar, famed for its cave dwelling monkeys. On meeting the reception committee, Prince Philip asked in a clear voice: "Which are the press and which are the apes?" Even one of Britain's stoutly Tory editors conceded that "there's no doubt the duke's a bit Teutonic. In effect, he tells the reporters to bugger...
...uneasy life. In the guise of writing a book in praise of the regime ... these two authors studied and listened to the people among whom they lived. They became achingly aware of the desperate poverty, the cruel indignities, [the] corruption and inequality ... Smuggled in small notebooks into Gibraltar, Reapers of the Storm is their novelized account of Spanish life...
...Arthur Dean (Korean armistice negotiator and onetime law partner of John Foster Dulles), enemy submarines can find easier sanctuary in extended and therefore deeper territorial seas. Furthermore, the elimination of the three-mile limit would abolish the. free channels through such narrow bodies of water as the Strait of Gibraltar (7.75 miles wide at its narrowest point), could seriously hamper friendly naval movement between the islands of Indonesia. To the newer nations of the world, such arguments carried no weight...
...completed. The network: three full-fledged SAC bases (at Torrejon, Zaragoza, Moron), completing a chain that stretches 1,200 miles from England to Morocco; a supply base at San Pablo, near Seville; a big sea and air base at Rota, commanding the Atlantic side of the Strait of Gibraltar; a 485-mile underground fuel pipeline linking the bases. Total cost of the bases when completed: $340 million...