Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick and treacherous as the Tunisian mud was the political situation (see p. 32). A constant, silent threat was the Rif territory of Spanish Morocco, lying squarely behind the Allied lines and along the Straits of Gibraltar. Estimates of the number of Spanish troops there ran from 100,000 to 200,000. Among them were efficient fighting men-the Spanish Foreign Legion and tough Moors. Short of heavy equipment, they were well enough armed to hack an attenuated supply line. As long as Fascist Premier Franco ran Spain, sullen, uncertain Spanish Morocco would pin down a certain number of watchful...
...young officer, Major Karl Haushofer, to study the workings of the Japanese Army. Traveling slowly via Suez and Singapore, young Haushofer hailed the flag of the Rising Sun with "immense relief." His long journey from the Fatherland had been humiliating: at many stages of the ship's passage-Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Aden, India, Singapore-he had seen a rocky bastion rise from the water flying the British Union Jack. A trained geographer, young Haushofer well knew of Britain's imperial lifeline. But on his trip this line took on a new and shocking significance in his eyes...
...Polish artist Feliks Topolski, whom George Bernard Shaw has called "perhaps the greatest of all impressionists in black & white," will shortly leave England for Gibraltar, Africa, Persia and India to continue drawing and painting the "entire phantasmagoria" of World War II. FORTUNE for January contains a ten-page portfolio of Topolski's masterly impressions of U.S. troops in Britain and Northern Ireland...
Last fortnight Elliott read in a Gibraltar newspaper that the Navy's Lieut. (j.g.) Franklin Roosevelt was in a Philadelphia hospital, "recovering from something that happened around North Africa." Other Roosevelts in action: Lieut. Colonel James, who took part in the Marine raid on Makin, now on duty in California; Lieut. John, on Navy duty in San Diego...
...Sebastián Falangist crowds cheered his prophecy of "certain Nazi victory over Russian Bolshevism." As forgetful of Spain's claimed neutrality as Franco was in addressing the Falangist National Council (TIME, Dec. 21), the Falangist crowds set up their old cry for the return of Gibraltar, chanted cheers for "Franco, Spain and Germany...