Word: gibraltarism
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...policy, opening the Great Debate. This year he delivered the same exhortation again. One of the greatest dangers to free men everywhere, he says, is the overstraining of the U.S. economy. He begs for a reassessment of present U.S. policy in Europe. He raises instead the concept of a Gibraltar of freedom in the Western Hemisphere. He denies that this is "isolation"; the word is a "smear" used to squelch debate, he says. He deplores such clichés, "which freeze thought...
...correct, if your limitation as to ocean liners is interpreted to mean only those vessels designed and built for passenger carrying . . . but U.S.S. Lake Champlain during Operation Magic Carpet, with her crew reduced to 2,000 to make room for 5,000 G.I.s as passengers, crossed the Atlantic from Gibraltar to Norfolk at an average speed of 32.048 knots, despite the fact that she was once forced to slow to 20 for a period of eight hours, because of rough seas...
Havoc & Confession. Thereafter, Beverley met everyone, from Gertrude Stein (like "seeing Gibraltar at dawn") to Queen Elizabeth (he played her a Chopin étude when she was Duchess of York). But the person who turned his glamorous life upside down was Journalist Dorothy Woodman (wife of New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin), who convinced him in the twinkling of an eye that war was just "a racket." Beverley had found the "cause" he needed to balance his "idiotic life" as a bright young thing. The book that resulted from his conversion, Cry Havoc (1933), proved to be one of the influential...
...ancestors, the Duke of Marlborough, whose victories made England the strongest power in the world. A skilled diplomat as well as a great soldier, Marlborough led a Europe-wide coalition that broke the power of France. At the Peace of Utrecht, he won for Britain such imperial gems as Gibraltar, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Hudson Bay territory...
Hoover recommended "the essentials of the proposals" he had urged a year ago, including i) withdrawal of U.S. ground forces to defend the Western Hemisphere, "this final Gibraltar of freedom"; 2) expansion of a powerful air & naval striking force that would act as a deterrent to World War III; 3) supply of munitions, rather than men, to the U.S.'s allies; 4) revision of the U.N. Charter, which "must not be allowed to dominate the internal sovereignty of our Government...