Word: gibraltarism
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...When Attlee tired, Sir Archibald Sinclair took up the attack for the Liberal forces. Said he: "Unlike this Government, Franco will remain faithful to his own principles and own friends. . . . Don't forget that a part of the policy of Franco's supporters is the recovery of Gibraltar from Britain." The British Government's epitaph, asserted scornful Sir Archibald, should be "We have eaten dirt in vain...
...help than hurt him. This is the outward, political aspect of an inner, social change which Catholicism underwent in the U. S. during the reign of Achille Ratti. The country is still Protestant, but amid the deepening class cleavages of today, the Roman Catholic Church is recognized as a Gibraltar of conservatism, and respect for the constancy of its moral values has revived...
...official assumption in France and Britain that the triumph of Generalissimo Francisco Franco constituted no danger for them, there were facts that could not be disguised. Italian troops are still in Spain. Italy occupies lock, stock and barrel the strategic Island of Majorca. German guns back of Algeciras dominate Gibraltar, are able at any time to threaten Britain's Mediterranean "lifeline." Both France and England would have much to fear from German submarine bases on Spain's northwest coast, four of which, by well-authenticated reports, have already been established. German submarine bases on the Canary Islands could...
...expanded bases in the Pacific outlined by the Navy is the Island of Guam. A glance at the geography of the Pacific (see map} is enough to tell anyone why that 210-square-mile, mountainous wart on the Pacific may one day be a spot as important as Gibraltar. After the war Japan was given a mandate over the once German Caroline Islands. The Caroline Islands lie across the U. S. route to the Philippines, and Guam lies across the Japanese route to the Carolines. In 1922 the Washington Naval Treaty bound both countries to construct no new fortifications...
...Malaria and other tropical diseases are common. Only industries are manufacture of salt and cigarets (which are sold very cheaply under pirated labels). Such sports as camel-racing can be indulged in when it is not too hot. The port, a strategic and impregnable naval base (sometimes called the Gibraltar of the East) bristles with guns...