Word: gibraltarism
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...Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle Jr., who recently talked with the Beaver in London) has tentatively agreed to let Britain have exclusive rights between the home island and the Crown Colonies (Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, Gibraltar, etc.). At least, the Beaver said so last week...
Mortar pits became graves for their crews. In the great tunnels, built to make Corregidor as impregnable as Gibraltar, haggard doctors stood and worked on floors slippery with blood. Food, medical supplies, ammunition...
Died. Rear Admiral Edye Kington Boddam-Whetham (pronounced boddom-wettem), 57, famed British sea dog; on active service at Gibraltar. Huge, salty, genial Boddam-Whetham commanded destroyers through World War I, in 1939 retired. Five weeks later he rejoined the Service, during the next three years took some 30 convoys safely through the seven seas, was in charge of a famed, fanatically assaulted Archangel convoy in the fall of 1942. Once during the eight-day air attack one of his escorting destroyers picked off a crippled German plane. Boddam-Whetham flashed a message: "Thought it not done to shoot...
...acquired included some first-class tactical worries, headaching problems of supply, a set of tarnished political problems. All of these and more were wrapped up in a gargantuan geographic command, running from the Turko-Syrian border through the Mediterranean and across Africa to Dakar. Any operation against Europe from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles would be his problem...
...west are Spanish Morocco, the Strait of Gibraltar, the sullen, hungry, heartsick land of Spain, where the corpulent Caudillo Franco balances sympathy against expediency, and ponders how he can best save his moth-eaten skin...