Word: gibraltarism
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...nearly done, glacial Mr. Welles melted ever so slightly; he seemed pleasantly weary, a touch debonair. He was happy to be home, and admitted it. A reporter referred to the 13-hour Gibraltar delay while British searched the Conte di Savoia for Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, once Nazi Minister of Economics. Newsman: "Was Dr. Schacht in your trunk?" Grinned Mr. Welles: "Just like Morgan's midget...
...left Pope Pius XII at 11:05 a.m. Following evening he left Rome, reached Genoa at 6:30 the next morning and, after a four-hour rest at his hotel, he went aboard the Conte di Savoia, which sailed at noon. The ship anchored at Gibraltar at 5:30 a. m., was boarded by British officers at 8, thoroughly searched by them (looking for German Economist Dr. Schacht, said rumors, while Berlin said he was there) and sailed...
...several respects the raid was a World War II first: numbers, timing, effect. It coincided perfectly with Adolf Hitler's visit to Benito Mussolini: as much as to say, if we can do this to you boys at Scapa, how about Gibraltar and Alexandria...
...making peace, the Welles interview was no sooner over than doubly inspired stories popped in the press-twice as extravagant as Ribbentrop's demands, more grandiose than the Kaiser's dream of the drive to the East, a tumultuous welter of claims, charges, accusations; demands for Suez, Gibraltar, Singapore; denunciations of British naval bases as pirate hideouts; insistence that Germany could no more tolerate Britain in Southeast Europe than the U. S. could tolerate an enemy seizure of the Panama Canal; demands that Britain give up its financial power-in short, an end of Britain's power...
...Further Developments." On this delicate point Anglo-Italian negotiations in Rome broke down recently, the British delegation left for home, and the British Navy for the first time blocked the steady procession of Italian ships bearing German coal from Rotterdam via Gibraltar to Italy (TIME...