Word: gibraltarism
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Winston Churchill defended General de Gaulle before the House of Commons last week. His version of the affair was that letting the six French warships out at Gibraltar was all a clumsy mistake, that the responsible officers were being disciplined. But knowing Britons told another story, according to which Winston Churchill needed some disciplining...
...Gibraltar had notified London of the approach of six French warships. The War Cabinet, according to this version, met, and Winston Churchill decided to take care of the French vessels outside the Mediterranean. The order was sent to let the Frenchmen out, but if they turned south, an M Squadron (light craft) was to keep them above Casablanca. Instead, during dark and perhaps stormy hours, the M Squadron lost the ally-enemy, and the Frenchmen reached Dakar...
...Britain's miserable winter weather, the still present threat of invasion, the anxiety of continuing air raids, the problem of keeping a mobilized but inactive army of more than two million men out of mischief, the possibility of another blow to civilian morale if, for instance, symbolic Gibraltar falls...
...troops passage through his peninsula, especially since it was announced this week that Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler would soon pay a visit to Spain. But since Spain has not enough food to feed Spaniards, much less a German Army, it is doubtful whether the Axis will try to storm Gibraltar until it thinks the job can be done quickly. And when Generalissimo Franco hears the count of nine over Britain, Spain will jump into the ring...
...thing he could do: snub the Vatican, and he pointedly refrained from asking for an audience. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano as pointedly took note of the omission in a paragraph that was clearly a rebuke. But the Vatican can neither blockade Spain nor help her to recover Gibraltar...