Word: gibraltarism
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...diplomatic tether, although disasters less terrible than the Libyan rout have toppled regimes in every century. With bases in the Balearic Islands, in Spain and in Spanish Morocco he might still retrieve his position in the Mediterranean; with Ceuta in Morocco he might even make Gibraltar untenable and cut one of Britain's supply lines...
Nelson received a head wound at the Nile which he was convinced was mortal. But he survived for Trafalgar seven years later. There, just west of Gibraltar, 27 British ships bore down on 33 of the enemy in two columns, one led by Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood Collingwood, the other by Nelson himself aboard his 100-gun flagship Victory. Nelson flashed his famous signal: "England expects every man to do his duty." Collingwood struck the enemy's rear, Nelson the centre. The British lost no ships, in the end captured or destroyed 22 of the Frenchmen. Nelson himself was mortally...
...bloodstream. Although perhaps there should be, there is no U. S. tradition of responsibility for the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico comparable to the innate, hereditary British concern for a sea which is both smaller (see map) and much farther from home ground. The British know that, in Gibraltar and Suez, much more than a trade line is at stake: without them, Britain has no hope of maintaining two fronts in a European war. Neither Italy nor Germany is blind to the two Mediterranean gates, and the British constantly expect a German campaign aimed at them...
After Oran the Royal Navy's only remaining stronghold in the West was Gibraltar, and even the Rock was surrounded by potential enmity-an Axis-controlled Spain to the north, Italian guns just across the Straits at Ceuta, the remains of the still equivocal French Fleet in Toulon. The Western Fleet spent most of the time on the alert, continually scouting for trouble. But all the time it was just waiting for a ripe time to go on the offensive. Last week the ripeness was there, and the Western Fleet harvested an audacious victory...
...than what Hitler said was what he did not say. He said nothing about relations with France, nothing about Bizerte in Tunisia (see map, p. 23), which General Charles de Gaulle says Hitler wants to take to support Libya. He mentioned neither Russia nor Japan. He said nothing about Gibraltar. His only reference to timing was in connection with U-boats. He did not say a word about Ireland, a likely spot for preliminary landings in the invasion of Britain. Invasion remained the one paramount question mark in this...