Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Into the Funnel. From the Strait of Gibraltar "twenty steamers, escorted by three battleships (two of them of the Nelson class*), four aircraft carriers (the Eagle, Furious, one of the Illustrious class and one of the U.S. carrier York town class), numerous cruisers, several dozen destroyers and some smaller units" moved slowly into the Mediterranean Sea. This was the Italian report. If it was true, it was one of the greatest Allied naval concentrations in those waters since the war began. The destination: Malta...
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...