Word: gibraltarism
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This week "Free France" struck at the English-and struck a blow singularly in coordination with Axis plans. One hundred and twenty French planes were unofficially reported to have bombed Gibraltar. First reports did not indicate whether the pilots were also French...
Fortnight ago three cruisers and three destroyers slipped past the beetling guns of Gibraltar, headed into the Atlantic with tricolors waving. It was strange that Germany had allowed their departure, for they were supposed to be interned in Toulon for the duration of the war. It seemed just as strange that Britain should let them go by unmolested, for they were survivors of a French squadron the British had partially destroyed in the Battle of Oran Bay two months before...
...adversaries' throats, the strategists of the Axis last week seemed to be baring their fangs for the British Empire's jugular vein at its two most exposed spots. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome (see p. 29) paved the way for action against Gibraltar, and the Italian drive in Egypt was headed straight for Suez...
...evidently told his German friends just how much of a war Spain could fight to get the spoils she covets: Gibraltar, French Morocco, Oran. Day after day, while Herr von Ribbentrop was gone, he frittered away his time, going to Brussels for a sight-seeing trip through German-occupied territory, twiddling his thumbs in Berlin. While German newspapers pointedly referred to Spain as the third member of the Axis and third power in Hitler's Europe, Don Ramón waited impatiently to hear what had passed between Joachim von Ribbentrop and his Italian friends...
...Conquest of the Mediterranean. This would involve seizure of Gibraltar, either by Spain or by German troops operating through Spain. To bar Britain from a land base Portugal would be forced to join the Axis or submit to occupation...