Word: gibraltarism
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...Cardenas called at the State Department, he was bluntly told that the U.S. oil embargo on Spain will continue until Spain meets U.S. demands. Most important demands still to be met: 1) an embargo on Spanish wolfram; 2) expulsion of Nazi agents from Tangiers and the fringes of Gibraltar (TIME...
Commandomen searched Gibraltar, came in with disheartening news. Five more of the Rock's historic apes were dead! From 17, the Rock's monkey colony had recently shrunk to eight. Two of the bodies just found were those of Adonis, also called Scruffy, and Antonio. They were rival leaders of the pack, potential fathers of future generations. The bodies were beyond postmortem; there was no way of proving that it was an Axis poison plot...
...legend is that the British will hold Gibraltar only so long as the Barbary apes (Macaca sylvana, Europe's only native species) remain there. Since 1780, when the chattering monkeys warned the garrison of a Spanish attack, the apes of Gibraltar have been tenderly cherished. In 1872 a subaltern who shot two of them for stealing his wardrobe was court-martialed, required to apologize publicly. Nowadays the apes are free to roam the Rock's caves and roads. The military administration even includes an official charged with keeping the apes alive, healthy and procreative. He is known...
General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson becomes Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean theater. Hulking (6 ft., 260 lb.), happy-natured "Jumbo" Wilson will merge his old Middle East command with all operations between Gibraltar and the Levant. Crisp, experienced General Sir Harold Alexander, who had been General Eisenhower's No. 1 deputy, remains in Italy as top commander there. With General Sir Bernard Paget, who modernized the British Army's battle training at home, as Jumbo Wilson's deputy in the Middle East, the Mediterranean thus becomes an all-British theater (although U.S. units may remain there...
After President Roosevelt and President Inönü of Turkey departed, Winston Churchill stayed on in Cairo until this week (when he turned up in Gibraltar). He discussed the Pacific War with Major General Richard K. Sutherland, General Douglas MacArthur's chief of staff. He called on King Farouk I of Egypt (confined with a broken femur after an automobile accident), lunched with George II of Greece. Churchill dined with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, conferred with Harold Macmillan, British Minister in North Africa, and held an off-the-record press conference. Through it all he was usually with...