Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still busy, and wondrously successful, in the first steps toward joining the German and pinching off the great United Nations salient between Calcutta and Gibraltar. To pinch off that salient he needed control of the Indian Ocean, and he had a good start-Singapore, the Indies, Rangoon. But the other key to the salient was Madagascar, and the busy Japanese couldn't get to it in time...
...resources of the United States, the abundant strength of the Allied cause, cannot rely on success through some ultimate victory. For if it takes too long, it will not be a victory at all. The process of economic, human, and spiritual liquidation, pressing on disillusioned people from Helsinki to Gibraltar . . . will of itself create the defeat of peace. The thoughts, the determination of countless democratic men and women are delayed from our awful task at hand by the overevaluation of our ultimate strength. . . . Either we hurry, either we do God's task with speed, or there...
...martial Mediterranean last week, strangely pacific ships were afloat. From fig-famed Smyrna on the Turkish coast, the British Llandovery Castle, brightly lighted, sailed for Egypt. In the same harbor the Italian Grandisca got up steam to sail for Italy. Into Gibraltar, unscathed, sailed the Italian Saturnia and Vulcania, sparkling with fresh white paint...
...Singapore] is as strongly fortified as Gibraltar. . . . It will play a great role when the inevitable clash between the East and the West finally takes place. In anticipation of that event, it maintains a set of barrooms, the splendor of which is famous all over the Orient...
...Oliveira Salazar. Doubtless they tried to solidify the one complete agreement between neutral Portugal and nonbelligerent, pro-Axis Spain. Both want to suffer as little damage as possible from the shocks and tremors of World War II. But Spain surrounds-and covets-the British fortress of Gibraltar, and Portugal's coastline and islands are fast becoming vital in the Battle of the Atlantic. It was, therefore, hard to believe that Spain and Portugal could long enjoy their neutral never-never land...