Word: gibraltarism
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Three weeks ago Germany's Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels said: "We will start on five fronts at the same time and have the war ended before the fall harvest." The four most likely objects of attack were the fortresses of British sea power: the British Isles, Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore. And if Adolf Hitler is not too sure he can reduce the British Empire by harvest time, he may go into the Near East...
...making dust across Libya, and II Duce was willing to sell France part of his equity in Mare Nostrum for the rescue of that Army from the British. To Spain he was willing to sell another bit of the Mediterranean if Spain would help to close the Strait of Gibraltar. Altogether, having been whittled down to the size of his Mediterranean neighbors, Benito ("We Prefer to be Feared Rather Than Loved") Mussolini was feeling mighty friendly toward them...
With Germany master of the Balkans, it was believed that further Turkish resistance to German influence will depend on whether the Germans also are able to close the Sicilian Straits of Gibraltar, thus breaking the British "Life Line...
...East the Battle opened with counterparts of the precautions at Oran and Gibraltar. The British hastily grabbed a French battleship, four cruisers and smaller vessels in Alexandria, and set up a patrol guarding the Suez Canal...
...sailor's greatest luxury, gardening, he hopes to retire. But meanwhile he has a heavy job to do. He knows that like all British servants of salt water, he must transcend his personal wants. He has a wife and family, but as Nelson used to say: "East of Gibraltar, every man is a bachelor." On the Mediterranean, every British manjack is a piece of naval equipment...