Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither of those things had yet been accomplished, and the fact that no invasion had yet been attempted strongly hinted that the Nazis had had to revise their plans. One possible hitch was that the Nazis had not so far obtained Spain's aid for an attack on Gibraltar...
...last month the Falange Española's newsorgan Arriba whipped out a jingo editorial announcing that Spain was no longer neutral but nonbelligerent. A few days later Generalissimo Francisco Franco officially embraced this policy, laid claim to Gibraltar and an unspecified piece of North Africa. Last week Arriba again applied the point of a pin to El Caudillo's chubby behind. Producing a brand-new term to baffle international lawyers, Arriba declared that Spain was now a "moral belligerent...
Like Italy too, Spain wants more as the chances of getting more increase. Until last spring she wanted only to be left alone. Then, as Italy began screaming about her "Mediterranean shackles," Spain awoke to the fact that the two-century-old British possession of Gibraltar was a national disgrace. Smooth-talking Sir Samuel Hoare went to Madrid and lost no time in indicating to Franco that Great Britain was willing to make a deal over Gibraltar. The terms of the deal were supposed to be that after the war Britain would give the Rock back to Spain, lease...
Hell & Heaven. The wreck of a country that is Spain today could use a few conquests - Gibraltar, probably a slice of French Morocco and Algeria, possibly a nip of Southern France - to divert the people's minds from their empty bellies, their sick and their war-crazed, their smoldering hatred and ever-present fear. Spaniards say: "It is hell now, but it is heaven compared to the war." Half a million are still in jail, packed six to ten in two-man cells, sleeping in two-hour relays. Twenty or 30 a day are executed...
...victory with the same instinctive consternation that made Henry Adams recoil from U. S. Grant. Wrote Henry Adams, describing his and his father's return after a decade in England: "Had they been Tyrian traders of the year B.C. 1,000, landing from a galley fresh from Gibraltar, they could hardly have been stranger on the shore of a world so changed...