Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-pressed Allies exchanged a few sharp jolts with him in northern Italy, Libya, Eritrea. The British clamped shut, at Gibraltar and Suez, the gates of their Mediterranean cage for Mussolini. This action cut off Italian East Africa from Rome. The Allies rounded up throughout the world such Italian merchant ships as did not scuttle themselves or hole up in neutral ports, including the Umbria en route to Eritrea through the Red Sea with 5,000 tons of air bombs and thousands of bags of cement...
...Linea, Spain, in sight of Gibraltar, the 10,000-ton Italian liner Chelind and a smaller compatriot were scuttled when the crews heard the news of war. The Capo Noli (3,921 tons), running down...
Whether Mussolini's Italy could be induced to stay out of the war was no longer the question. Flushed with somebody else's success, Il Duce had upped his demands to include not only Tunisia, Djibouti, French and British Somaliland. Corsica. Malta. Gibraltar and Suez, but also the two French departments of the Maritime Alps (including the Riviera) and the Haute-Savoie. On hearing this news. France called off a trade pact awaiting signature, got ready for war with Italy...
...Mussolini a desperate bribe to stay out of the war: a treaty of friendship, a trade agreement, new credits. Such appeasement must have flattered Il Duce. Nevertheless, Il Duce refused. Meanwhile parallel British appeasement feelers, equally fruitless, resulted in a temporary easing of contraband inspection of Italian vessels passing Gibraltar. Last week Italy made hay while the sun still shone...
...began, the British cartel cut the Germans out of the market, black-listed dealers who could not convince Sir Ernest's executives they would not let their purchases into the Reich. When the British held the Pan-American Clipper at Bermuda and seized U. S. ship mail at Gibraltar, one big object of their search was diamonds headed for Nazi factories. Last week U. S. industrialists might well ponder what a Hitler-dominated cartel could do to mass production...