Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little more than a month later he addressed a long letter to Hitler begging for guns. Said he: "The first act in our attack must consist in the occupation of Gibraltar. For our part we have been preparing the operation in secret for a long time. . . . My unchangeable and sincere adherence to you personally, to the German people, and to the cause for which you fight. I hope, in defense of this cause, to be able to renew the old bonds of comradeship between our armies...
...Eberhard von Stohrer, German ambassador at Madrid, reported that Franco's price was Gibraltar, French Morocco and the Oran section of Algeria, plus military and economic assistance...
When Sikorski died in an airplane crash at Gibraltar, Mikolajczyk, at 42, became Prime Minister of the exile government. When Moscow created the rival puppet Polish government, which is still the hard core of the provisional regime in Warsaw, Mikolajczyk shuttled across half the globe -from London to Washington to Moscow-to see on what terms the Poles of London and the Poles of Lublin could get together. He talked and chain-smoked with Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, parleyed with the Lublin left-wingers, worked out a compromise disowned by the right-wingers in London. He resigned in November...
...recent discovery, in Axis diplomatic papers, that only Nazi bungling stopped Franco from coming into the war on the Axis side in 1940. Had he received arms and food from Axis Europe in time, Spain would have made a "speedy entry" into the war with an assault on Gibraltar and French North Africa...
Arms & Surpluses. What finally did the trick was the war. Several months before Pearl Harbor, American servicemen joined Canadians in transforming the island into a Gibraltar. Before war's end, the U.S. and Canada poured hundreds of millions into Newfoundland for bases, barracks, dockyards, airports...