Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They reasoned that this was still a war of blockade. Britain, with Canada and the U. S. behind her, was still blockading Hitler's Europe, and, by the grip on Gibraltar and Suez, Mussolini's Italy. The deadlock in the Battle of Britain, apparently, was about to bring a new Axis strategy into play against this blockade. Hitler undoubtedly visited Mussolini at Brenner Pass last week to talk strategy (see p. 39). German papers began to argue, not without a certain petulance, that Britain could be beaten without a costly invasion. Could it be possible that...
...over 60 were useful to garrison the conquered territories. All the rest-about 150-might as well be put to some use. There were three things Germany very much wanted to get at: the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, which could supply Germany's major shortage; Gibraltar, one of the keys to British sea power; and Dakar, a place of many potential uses (see map). A drive in the East could weaken the British Empire gravely. Meanwhile bombing would continue Britain's terrible wearing down...
Neutral observers were not convinced by Axis assurances that despite the visit to Berlin and Rome of Don Ramón Serrano Suner, brother-in-law of Generalissimo Franco, Spain would continue nonbelligerent. Some 40,000 German "tourists" had filtered into Spain. Spanish popular agitation for the return of Gibraltar had been too well synchronized with Axis moves to be altogether spontaneous. It seemed extremely likely that the "Rock" was in for a winter of terrible poundings by the Luftwaffe and by artillery from Algeciras across the Straits. And if Gibraltar fell, it was further likely that Axis troops would...
...some of whom had come back from France with bogy tales of German soldiers with wings that no Senegalese could reach so as to cut their ears off. The place was strengthened by five newly arrived pro-Vichy warships. Of the six which had escaped from Toulon and through Gibraltar without so much as a cough from the British (TIME, Sept. 30), one had put into Casablanca with engine trouble. These vessels, which were armed under the armistice clause permitting French defense of the French Empire, had brought about 3,000 more men, all of whom would be a long...
...cities, Wakam airport, the railroad line to St. Louis, the city's main boulevard. Three pro-Vichy submarines put out, two of which were sunk. Altogether there were about 600 casualties, half civilian, half military. By way of reprisal, French planes armed for patrol duty in Algeria bombed Gibraltar two days. And Dakar did not surrender...