Word: gibraltarism
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...days earlier Italy and Greece had both moved back from the Greco-Albanian frontier. Italy sent an Ambassador, Giuseppe Bastianini, to the Court of St. James's, where she has had none since June. Italy made no protest last week when the British stopped an Italian ship at Gibraltar and confiscated cargoes destined for Germany. Italian trade boomed, with export orders far above normal. A new airline began operating from Naples to The Netherlands Indies and Australia. Passenger steamers were booked to capacity and passengers ruefully reported that prices were up 50%*. It seemed pretty clear that, if Mussolini...
Announced by Minister Cross were five control points where he proposed to have the British Navy go over questionable cargoes. These were Kirkwall (in the Orkney Islands), Weymouth and the Downs (English ports), Gibraltar and Haifa (Palestine). Neutral vessels bound toward Germany were politely requested to call at these ports, to save trouble all round. To reduce delay, ships were urged to have their papers and cargo manifests drawn up in convenient duplicate for the British officers...
Italy threatens to cut them off. The military brains of London and Paris will be virtually forced to devote their attention to clearing out the Mediterranean, to pulverizing Italian opposition on sea and land, in order to open their communications from Gibraltar to the Bosporus...
...Peninsula. The Chamberlain and Daladier Governments have been savagely criticized for letting Spain fall into.the hands of Fascist Franco, who is now in a position to train big guns on Britain's Gibraltar from the landward side. The result of this strategic boner is that the British can no longer count on Gibraltar as a firm support for naval operations along the British Mediterranean lifeline, that France is worried about submarine and airplane attacks on her Marseille-Algiers shipping from Italy's Sardinia and the Spanish Balearic Islands. But Spain is not necessarily a fatal loss to Britain...
...want to control it, on the broader international scene the issue was essentially one between the Rome-Berlin Axis and the British-French Peace Front. The Monarchists have always been pro-English; the Falangists are ready to sign an alliance with Germany and Italy. Passing British-owned Gibraltar on an Italian cruiser recently, Minister of the Interior Serrano Suñer was heard to mutter that the Rock's days of "disgrace" were numbered, i. e., that it would soon again be Spanish. The smart money is on him to win the current showdown...