Word: gibraltarism
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...recent discovery, in Axis diplomatic papers, that only Nazi bungling stopped Franco from coming into the war on the Axis side in 1940. Had he received arms and food from Axis Europe in time, Spain would have made a "speedy entry" into the war with an assault on Gibraltar and French North Africa...
...smallest of Britain's Crown colonies, Gibraltar (area, 2 sq. mi.; pop. 19,278) took a firm stand against the liquidation of the British Empire. At the foot of the Rock, a mass meeting voted last week to send three delegates on a mission to London. Their mandate: to have "Gib" incorporated in metropolitan Britain, 1,200 miles away...
...first one to slink in was the U-249, which put in at Weymouth harbor, in southern England, with ten unfired torpedoes aboard. Soon others were moving to English and Scottish ports; two came in to Gibraltar. The first surrender in the western Atlantic occurred when a patrolling R.C.A.F. Liberator spotted a U-boat and summoned surface craft to bring it in to Shelburne...
...Sultan is the nominal autocrat of three countries, in each of which somebody else is the real boss: French Morocco, the northwest shoulder of Africa; Spanish Morocco, its epaulet; and Tangier (overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar), the chip on the shoulder...
Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar." Successor: his deputy, rugged Major General Willis Henry Hale...