Word: gibraltarism
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...Italy insisted last week that the British battle cruiser Hood and aircraft carrier Ark Royal were tied up in Gibraltar undergoing repairs after Italian bomb-hits last fortnight. Two small groups of big Italian bombers, each carrying two tons of explosive, appeared over the Rock one night after flying all the way from Italy (1,000 miles). A blaze of searchlights and a fierce storm of anti-aircraft fire burst from the Rock but the Italians got away after inflicting what they described as "serious damage" on the dockyard and supply dumps...
...British started digging a 13-foot ditch from the Mediterranean to the Bay of Algeciras through the flat, sandy neck (1,300 yd. wide), joining the Rock and the Spanish mainland. Evidently they had reason to expect an attack on Gibraltar, either by loud-talking Spain or by German "tourists" with whom Spain is now crawling...
...Adolf Hitler was loudly cheered and Neville Chamberlain derisively whistled at when the Nazi film Baptism of Fire was released "against British warmongers." With the fall of France, Germans in & out of uniform went hustling into Spain, where they were seen everywhere last week. Some went to villages behind Gibraltar, possibly to man the big guns covering it, installed by Nazis during the Spanish Civil War. Adolf Hitler also sent the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle to Francisco Franco and waited for him to speak...
...cried, "and 2,000,000 soldiers ready to face any one and support Spain's rights!" Harking back to Christopher Columbus' patroness Queen Isabella, El Caudillo continued, "From that initial period this duty and mission has been left us as a people: the command to hold Gibraltar, African expansion, and maintenance of unity, the command of Isabella's will which, after four centuries, is still in force...
...reviewing stand to watch an impressive three-hour parade headed by units of the now reorganized Spanish Army. It proved surprisingly strong in highly mechanized equipment and gleaming field artillery. As Generalissimo Franco stood side by side with imperturbable Sir Samuel, they ignored excited Spanish shouts: "We want Gibraltar! We want Gibraltar...