Word: gibraltarism
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...Moscow or to Mexico City, its vacancy in Rome having been filled last month by Spanish War Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews. Although Hitler has caught up with him in his last two posts, Correspondent Gedye, feeling sure the next major crisis would come in Western Europe, probably over Gibraltar, sailed gaily for Russia at week...
...Gedye journeyed from Europe to Manhattan to declare "war inevitable." Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor William Philip Simms was more explicit. He wrote from Washington he had "secret information" that Führer Hitler was thinking over the possibility of sudden, simultaneous moves against Poland, Egypt, Suez and Gibraltar. Added" Editor Simms: "A sinister aspect of the report is that Marshal Hermann Göring, hitherto regarded as a moderate in opposition to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and [Police Chief] Heinrich Himmler, is now said to favor a lightning war." Meanwhile, scarcely less ominous were actual diplomatic and military maneuverings...
According to border reports there is similar activity at La Lines, near Gibraltar, where Galacian reinforcements are so numerous that barracks have overflowed and soldiers, tanks and artillery are parked in the bullring...
British engineers at Gibraltar last night barricaded the main road leading from La Linea to the famous British fort guarding the entrance to the Mediterranean. French military and sir attaches from Burgos went to Gibraltar by automobile where they conferred with British commanders...
Although greater in tonnage and ships than the Franco Navy, the Loyalist fleet early in the war lost control of the strategic Strait of Gibraltar and with it the mastery of the Spanish waters. Reasons: 1 ) when the war started sailors on Loyalist ships killed most of their experienced officers, leaving only inexperienced men in command; 2) the Franco fleet was rein forced by Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship Espa...