Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms. General Collins will doubtless try to get arms and equipment for his men, but only the War Department and the General Staff in Washington can step up the quality and tempo of planning for Puerto Rico. Until that is done, the Army will have only an eggshell Gibraltar in Puerto Rico...
Africa. "The whole of North Africa from the Strait of Gibraltar to Somaliland would be at the disposition of the Axis. . . . Certain British and other African colonies on the east and west coasts would come under German and Italian control. The Union of South Africa might be required to secure complete independence...
Reports like these keyed all too well with word that the Germans were in virtual control of the International Zone of Tangier, that they were building airports in southern Spain within half an hour's flight of Gibraltar...
...threat of a Nazi Army moving through France and Spain to cork up Gibraltar and garrison northwest Africa was serious indeed to the British. If such a campaign succeeded, the British would practically have to abandon the western Mediterranean and Germany would have another base for the Battle of the Atlantic, as well as a steppingstone on the route to South America via Dakar...
...attack, soon would have to choose whether to fight a hopeless war or let Nazi troops pass through on their way to the Mosul oil fields. Vichy was under pressure to help Germany in Africa (see p. 30). Pressure was expected in Spain for help in an attack on Gibraltar, perhaps on Portugal as well. Japan was making bold gestures toward Singapore, where British reinforcements were rushed (see p. 30). Against all these threats Winston Churchill could only balance the remote chance of acquiring Russia as an ally. Once more he uttered a solemn warning to Joseph Stalin: "The Germans...