Word: gibraltarism
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...Allied mission is headed by steel-grey Lieut. General F. N. Mason-MacFar-lane ("Mason Mac"), Governor of Gibraltar; its Chief of Staff is 42-year-old U.S. Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. The mission, the King and Badoglio all profess to have Italy's best interests at heart, but insist that their actions be judged first by the immediate necessity of driving out the Germans. Their joint plan is to broaden the flimsy base of the Badoglio Government by including in it the top leadership of the six political parties which have survived or sprung...
Winston Churchill had good cause to feel pleased. Despite the wrangle over a "second front" he had persisted in putting first things first so that now Britain's lifeline from Gibraltar to Malta to Alexandria was secured. The solid red lines on the map showed more than the routes of a southern invasion of Europe. They showed that the geographical sinews-if not the social and political sinews-of the British Empire, upon which the U.S. depended too, had been saved and restored. That was one reason why Mr. Churchill was pleased to call the Mediterranean the "third front...
Less affected by baseball's innumerable hoodoos are the other names that should shine in baseball's biggest event: the Yankees' aging (36) Bill Dickey, a Gibraltar of a catcher for 16 years, who hits .348 in those games he feels spry enough to play; the Cardinals', shy Stan Musial, a sprinting outfielder who leads the National League in hitting (.358); Yankee third-baseman Bill Johnson, whom Connie Mack calls the year's best rookie...
...more relaying to Berlin of reports on Allied convoys passing Gibraltar...
Died. Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, 46, Unionist M.P. from Chippenham since 1924, onetime British squash racquets champion, political liaison officer to Premier of the Polish Government in exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski; in their bomber's crash at Gibraltar...