Word: gibraltarism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night last week the 1,650-ton Spanish Loyalist destroyer Jose Luis Diez got up steam, weighed anchor, laid down a smoke screen and left Admiralty Harbor, on the Atlantic side of Gibraltar. Scarcely had she moved from the British-protected waters before her crew saw rockets flare from a housetop on the Rock. No one needed to tell them what those flares meant: they were signals from Rebel watchers notifying Rebel warships patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar that the Jose Luis Diez, having waited for weeks to make her getaway, was trying a second time to run the blockade...
...Erica Reed is due to make the Leftist Mediterranean ports next week, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's bombers and navy permitting. Shuttling somewhere between Villefranche, Tangier, Gibraltar and Naples were two U. S. destroyers and a light cruiser, which might possibly in some emergencies have something to say about interference...
...minimized Italian help to the Rightists, mentioned Moorish troops infrequently, reported denials of large-scale executions, called the Rightists "Nationalists" and described the Rightist reoccupation of Teruel seven weeks before that city was retaken. Even ardent Rightist Carney last week apparently felt he had to go to Gibraltar before he cabled that mediation was "debated on all sides from every angle" in Rightist Spain...
...Perhaps Singapore also would have fallen if the war had lasted even a few months. With these in Japanese hands the whole British stake in the Far East might have been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range of Gibraltar might have cut the British lifeline there, and Italy might have used her navy & air force to chop up the same lifeline at Suez and in the Mediterranean, although Mussolini & Franco might have done what Italy did in 1915, change sides for a fancy price to join Britain & France...
Disabled, the José Luis Diez crept back to Gibraltar, and was beached in shallow water behind the Mole. That afternoon the British destroyer Vanoc gave Rightist and Leftist dead a sea burial. For the superior Rightist Navy the battle was partial revenge for the sinking a year ago of its battleship España, the torpedoing last winter of its cruiser Baleares...