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...Rhodes, lesser forces in the other Italian Dodecanese and the Greek islands just off Turkey. But the Mediterranean is not yet an Axis sea. The British and the Maltese still hold Malta (see cover); they still have Cyprus, Syria, Palestine and Egypt at one end of the Mediterranean, Gibraltar at the other. British convoys, British and U.S. warships and planes still dispute with the Axis the mastery of the greatest inland...
Faith, Hope and Charity. For the British, Malta was a naval base, a handy coaling station and therefore a bright military jewel which, with Gibraltar and Suez, gave the empire control of the Mediterranean. This was not to say that the Maltese themselves remained altogether satisfied with the latest rulers. The Maltese farmers, descendants of the Phoenicians, illiterate, pious, aloof, tilling the thin crust of soil which lies on the island's rock, did not much care. But the city Maltese, largely descendants of the retinues of the Knights, fervent Roman Catholics, clever and temperamental, felt uneasy under this...
...Dispatches "from the French border" reported that Vichy submarines had sneaked past Gibraltar and reinforced strong French naval forces in Dakar's harbor...
...Mediterranean? Axis labor battalions raised defenses along the Balkan and Mediterranean coasts. The Germans, reporting big-scale British landing exercises at Gibraltar, had not forgotten that along the Balkan coasts were the points of action nearest to the Russians' southern front. Nor could they forget the coastline between Tunisia and Egypt, in Rommel's rear, where a sudden blow might affect the whole course of battle in North Africa and the Middle East...
Opening its first week with a long list of feature attractions the Crimson Network will offer tonight and tomorrow night interviews with Robert K. Knapp, teaching fellow in Psychology, Dick Harlow, coach of Varsity football, and Vern Miller, the Crimson Rock of Gibraltar as left tackle on last year's team...