Word: gibraltarism
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...from one another; consequently, the United States' representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing to this lack of bases. Great Britain, with many bases dotting the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean from Gibraltar to Hongkong, has been content with smaller ships of less fuel capacity. The two policies have naturally clashed in the attempts toward mutual agreement on fleet strength...
...towed back to safety by the U. S. Coast Guard. Then Kilkenny sold his shipmates the idea of building a Chinese Junk, and sailing it the 10.000 miles from Hongkong through the Dutch East Indies around Cape Cormorin through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean and out again at Gibraltar, up the Seine and straight to the Paris Fair of 1937. Later, if all goes well, the craft will cross the Atlantic for the New York World's Fair...
...British soldiers steaming from the Far East to the Mediterranean mutinied and killed three British merchant seamen, according to Captain David Bone who filed at Gibraltar a terse account which shocked London. The soldiers were ordered brought to Southampton for trial...
...today is a great convenience to the world's shipping but before it was built in 1859, Britain's great Lord Palmerston saw it as a potential menace to the British Empire. On the open seas Britain was supreme. The Suez Canal meant a shortcut waterway from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Aden* requiring, if Britain was to control it, immensely involved politics. It meant that Britain, if she could not block the building of the Suez Canal, must at least partly own and control it and must by hook or crook dominate Egypt, then a vassal state...
...around those Rocks of Gibraltar that Harlow is building his desired "60-minute team." Probably most of the men who have been chosen for the Army game will remain in the "A" lineup for the greater part of the season, barring injuries and barring one other eventuality. This one other eventuality is the possible lack of an offense...