Word: gibraltarism
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...Rocks of Gibraltar...
Naval experts called Britain's continued Naval demonstration in the Mediterranean last week the world's greatest massing of sea power since the Battle of Jutland. From Gibraltar the colossal British war boats Hood and Renown had moved down last week to Alexandria within shooting distance of the Suez Canal, supported by 14 squadrons of British battle planes on the aircraft carriers Glorious and Courageous. At Aboukir. where Nelson routed Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile, arrived 170 more British war planes...
Mare Nostrum. When the British Home Fleet's flagship Nelson left Portland for Gibraltar this departure was officially described as "for one day's maneuver." Previously the Renown and the Hood and three smaller ships had slipped away so unobtrusively that those of their 6,000 officers & crew who happened to be ashore were recalled on a few hours' notice spread by flashing the order on cinema screens at Portland and circulating it among the pubs. In strict technicality the Admiralty's knowledge of exactly where the Home Fleet might be was locked in the resolute bosom of the fleet...
...kitchen stove. "Fire!'" screamed his wife as the paper blazed. Waking up with a start, the mate rammed the family cat into the oven, banged the door and roared, "Ready, Sir." Though the United Kingdom never heard last week that whimsical Admiral Backhouse & Home Fleet had sailed for Gibraltar, the fact of their arrival finally appeared tucked quietly away in London papers, while world headlines were screaming "WAR!" from Chicago to Canton...
...news map (see cut) of the actual Mediterranean situation: roughly one million tons of fighting craft jammed into the small sea which Romans have called for over 2,000 years Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). On paper the Mediterranean seemed "bottled up'' by British ships at its two outlets, Gibraltar and Suez. But the paws of the British Lion remained relaxed last week. Italy's transatlantic liners continued to shuttle on schedule through the Straits of Gibraltar. Italian transports moved methodically through the Suez Canal, carrying an average of 2,000 Italian troops per day to face Ethiopia, 1,000 miles...