Word: gibraltarism
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...abroad. Absent were Senators Russell of Georgia, Gibson of Vermont and Duffy of Wisconsin, who dared not sail until after the Court Bill's solemn political interment in Washington (TIME, Aug. 2). They were to arrive in time to dedicate other" tasteful monuments at Flanders Field, Bellicourt, Cantigny, Gibraltar, Château-Thierry...
...Gibraltar. British Laborites failed last week to arouse His Majesty's Government with the disclosure, not challenged in the House of Commons, that German technicians have now installed for General Franco a semicircle of heavy howitzers on Spanish soil commanding Britain's Gibraltar. When Labor M.P.s got to pressing His Majesty's Government uncomfortably, one of the most remarkable diversions in Parliamentary history was created by new First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper who drawled: "It may interest the House to know that a British ship was captured [by the Rightists] while attempting to enter...
...Rightist air force has been "doubled" by recent arrivals of Germans and Italians, declared that 15,000 more Italian soldiers had just been landed officered by members of the Italian General Staff. Meanwhile seven German warships left their anchorages in Portuguese waters (see map, p. 15), steaming past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where they were joined by the Admiral Graf Spee which arrived from Germany to replace the recently bombed Deutschland. London rumors had high naval officers in Berlin protesting to Der Führer that in sending his best ships into Mediterranean waters dominated by France and Britain...
...March 7-Don't publish anything about the Rex having met a terrible storm between the Azores and Gibraltar...
After a day of dreamlike quiet in Madrid during which not a shot was heard another furious bombardment was launched in which correspondents counted a shell every ten seconds. Across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spanish Morocco, Generalissimo Franco rushed 14,000 more troops, some of them foreign volunteers and tatterdemalion striplings. In a few weeks he will sidetrack great numbers of troops to reap the July grain harvest if he wants his soldiers to have enough to eat this autumn...