Word: gibraltarism
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Directly traceable to the Leftist victory at Teruel, however, was a wave of desertions from the Rightist Army. At Gibraltar, foreigners were able to see evidence of it with their own eyes. All week long the Leftist consul at Gibraltar went about with pockets stuffed with cash like a racing bookmaker. In driblets, two and three men at a time, Rightist deserters arrived, some in rowboats from Algeciras across the bay, some by land from La Linea across no man's land to neutral ground. Back & forth to British police headquarters went the consul to pay the small fines...
...Italians there was in the Spanish situation an enormous opportunity to obtain revenge for the British attitude on their Ethiopian conquest. No longer will it be possible for the Crown to maintain Gibraltar in the security they have enjoyed in years past...
...Could these letters properly be described as love letters?" The House was told by British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha what has long been known and frequently denied, that the Spanish Rightists have installed artillery commanding Britain's chief Mediterranean base. "The guns on the Strait of Gibraltar," said Mr. Hore-Belisha, "are of various calibres from 12-inch howitzers downward...
...Even the most reactionary Englishman does not look with friendliness at the prospect of a Nazi or Fascist Spain," he declared, when questioned about the strife in the land of the bull-fights. He stressed the precariousness of the position of England's Gibraltar in the present crisis...
...title of High Commissioner. Three days after the rebellion started its official leader, General Sanjurjo, was killed in an airplane accident over Lisbon. In the emergency, Francisco Franco, who had kept the revolution alive after its first setback by pouring in Moors and munitions from across the Straits of Gibraltar, became generalissimo in name as well as fact...