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Position. In strategic values, the German victory was complete. Except for Gibraltar, Britain now had not one square foot of continental European soil under its military control, and had no immediate prospect of getting a major point of reentry. The Germans had every prospect of being able to go on to further triumphs...
Reports like these keyed all too well with word that the Germans were in virtual control of the International Zone of Tangier, that they were building airports in southern Spain within half an hour's flight of Gibraltar...
...Philippe Petain demanding the reinstatement of Pierre Laval in the Cabinet. Against U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell's warning that the U.S. would do its utmost for Britain, Spain's newspapers started an Axis-inspired campaign against Portugal, hinted that Spain would soon join the Axis. Object: Gibraltar...
...cigaret and lobbing the bombs at the Germans. Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops in central Norway last year...
...Strait of Gibraltar the four Vichy freighters and their destroyer kept as much as possible in Spanish waters as they sailed past Britain's fortress. As the convoy entered the Mediterranean the British gave chase but did not open fire. Presently the screech of projectiles began, not from the Vichy destroyer but from coastal batteries in French Algeria. Were they manned by Nazis or by Frenchmen? The British could not be sure, but their ships opened up and shelled the shore batteries. The French convoy put on speed and ducked into Nemours in Algeria. As the British ships...