Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Torch convoys were already at sea when Montgomery threw his punch. Two British convoys proceeded through Gibraltar unscathed, and it was not until Nov. 7 (the day before North African Dday) that U-boats attacked. As for the U.S. convoy, it was first attacked by U-boats 48 hours after Dday. The richest, most obvious submarine target in history, much of it at sea for weeks, was totally missed by German Intelligence...
...fanatical Falangist, a few weeks before the North African invasion. It was a happy freak of fortune, says Sir Samuel, that Franco chose this time to oust his ambitious brother-in-law. Had Serrano Suñer remained in office, the invasion might have miscarried. The Gibraltar airfield could have been crippled "in less than a half hour." Gibraltar bay, which had been filling with ships for days, was almost as vulnerable. Jordana was "pro-Ally to the core," discreetly looked the other way, asked no embarrassing questions...
...groups so long in either prison or retirement, began to reappear. But at the same time a pervasive fear of Russia was growing among American military and civilian officials. Many went so far as to adopt the idea, beloved of Japanese die-hard militarists, of Japan as an American Gibraltar against Rusia. At very least, the Soviets became suspect of designs on Japan; all communist, and indeed all leftist, activity in the country was seen as Russian-inspired, and Russian interest that paralleled our own began to look like espionage...
Crouch & Swing. There was no Maginot Line mentality in the Central African conception. The 19,000-foot snowcap of legendary Kilimanjaro might be a figurative Gibraltar at the approaches to the Indian...
...Black Sea nations, i.e., Russia and her satellites, Bulgaria and Rumania. The Western powers submitted their ideas, but Russia merely continued a press and radio war of nerves -charged that neutral Turkey had aided the Axis, hinted at territorial demands, asked such questions as: if Britain can control Gibraltar and Suez, and the U.S. Panama, why should not Russia control the Dardanelles? Moscow also pointedly failed to renew its 20-year-old friendship treaty with Turkey, which expired last fall...