Word: gibraltarism
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...weeks ago the U. S. was bristling with anger at Britain for her illegal seizures of mail, and for holding up the Manhattan days on end at Gibraltar. Now the Government finds itself faced with the German threat that American ships which touch at Gibraltar are "legal" prey for U-boats. More and more, this country is finding that even as efficient a Neutrality Act as the one now in force can open up a lot of holes under pressure. And yet, if the President and Secretary of State, in their administration of the Act, will be true...
Secretary of State Hull had protested in strongly measured language, got no satisfactory answer. To a note in which he conceded the right of the British to search parcel-post packages at Gibraltar but complained that U. S. ships had been discriminated against, subjected to unreasonable delay, he got no answer at all. Last week, banning the shipment of "articles or materials" by air mail, the U. S. indicated that it thereby removed any further excuse for a repetition of the Bermuda incident...
...thus jeopardizing U. S. good will: 2) The State Department did not take a stronger stand. The U. S. had economic weapons to force Britain to show due respect, could send naval escorts to convoy merchant ships. What if a U. S. vessel should defy British patrol boats at Gibraltar, refuse to stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure of the City...
Early this week the U. S. State Department made public an aide-mémoire to British Ambassador Lord Lothian on detention of U. S. ships in the Mediterranean. The U. S. point: Italian ships are detained an average of only four days at Gibraltar, U. S. ships an average of 12.4 days. The State Department's demand: "This government must expect that the British Government will at least take suitable and prompt measures to bring about an immediate correction of this situation...
...demands upon it. His men have flown more than five million miles since war began. They call him "The Vicar of Western Europe" and he calls his domain "My Parish." It extends from 1,000 miles west in the Atlantic to Helgoland Bight and Sylt and from Gibraltar to Arctic ice. So exacting is he about evidence from his pilots for their exploits that one of them lately whined: "Pretty soon Ginger'll want us to reach out and bring back the bloody periscope before he believes...