Word: gibraltarism
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...Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes, Catholic scholar from Columbia University, stayed on the job and had an interview with Serrano during the time the Nazis broadcast, inaccurately, that he had flown to Gibraltar. Hayes's able diplomacy and Rooseveltian chatter about U.S. post-war tourist plans were seen by some as forerunners of a more friendly attitude from Franco. But Franco has remained neutral for other sound reasons: 1) An open break with the Allies would ruin Falange propaganda and espionage work in the Western Hemisphere; 2) Spain would become a potential invasion point for the Allies; 3) Franco...
...explained last week, was: 1) the U.S. and the other American nations will rehabilitate Spanish art treasures and famous buildings; 2) the U.S. and the others will encourage postwar tourist trade to Spain from the 21 American republics. The price: Dictator Francisco Franco will remain neutral, i.e., not attack Gibraltar as an open ally of the Axis (TIME...
...said he, must prepare to "fight a new war of a moral, religious, military and industrial character." Up went the temperatures of diplomats in the old and the new worlds. They wondered how long it would be before Franco, backed once more by friends Hitler & Mussolini, would: 1) attack Gibraltar, 2) draw neutral Portugal into the Spanish orbit...
Some 1,000 miles from Gibraltar, near the Tyrrhenian Sea, Axis ships bustled out-a force of cruisers which suddenly turned tail, trying to draw off some of the convoy's protective strength. The British dispatched a submarine in pursuit, held their course steadily for the funnel...
Italian sources reported British ships limping into Gibraltar. A Vichyfrance seaplane liner, bound for Algiers, was attacked in the air by planes, possibly British, to whom anything in the air on that confused occasion must have looked like an enemy. Spitfires based on Malta rushed out to the Royal Navy...