Word: gibraltarism
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...Cyrus S. Eaton is an indefatigable financier and promoter with a finger in many pies. His latest promotion is a $100 million steel mill which, if the Government will provide $90 million of the money, Eaton will build on a 1,000-acre site on the Detroit River at Gibraltar, Mich. To run the new company, Eaton has picked Max J. Zivian president of Detroit Steel Corp., in which Eaton controls 24% of the stock...
There were other voices urging similar courses. But essentially, it was a week for answering Herbert Hoover, Robert Taft and the other pleaders for a defensive foreign policythe policy of retreat to what Hoover called a Western Gibraltar. Arizona's apple-cheeked Ernest McFarland, rising to his first test as a majority leader of the new Senate, gave the debate free rein: "It is this clash of honest judgment and conviction . . . which results in sounder policy," he said...
...Gibraltar Policy. Herbert Hoover would pull out of Korea, send no more U.S. forces overseas except to a limited cordon of Pacific and Atlantic bases, build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of Western Civilization" and wait the Russians out. Senator Taft would include several more bases than Hoover (e.g., North Africa, perhaps Malaya and Spain), and honor the U.S. commitment to fight if a North Atlantic ally is attacked. But he would fight by sea and air, not on land...
...Prepare for War. This was not isolationism, Taft said, nor was that the label for Hoover's doctrine of Gibraltar-ism (TIME, Jan. 1). "It seems to me that our battle against Communism is in fact a worldwide battle and must be fought on the world stage . . . [but] our first consideration must be defense of America." Here is how he would wage the battle...
...life as a famous European bird sanctuary and as a key naval base for Imperial and later Nazi Germany. World War II scared away the birds; at war's end, the British also sent away Helgoland's human population of 1,400, turned Germany's backyard Gibraltar into a target range for Royal Air Force and U.S. Air Force bombers. Every five days or so, bombers out on target practice pounded the island's remains to smithereens...