Word: malta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never-ending colonial demands for independence, few things have so touched and intrigued Britons as the political yearning of Malta, the rocky little Mediterranean isle whose 320,000 inhabitants earned a collective George Cross for heroism under Axis air assault during World War II. Instead of independence, the Maltese under the leadership of fiery, 41-year-old Prime Minister Dom (for Dominic) Mintoff have asked for complete integration into the United Kingdom and the right to send three M.P.s to Britain's House of Commons in London...
Navy Wife. Early in their marriage, after persuading his father-in-law to return him to active naval service, Philip insisted that Elizabeth join him in Malta and live like any other officer's wife. For the first time in her life, the future Queen really saw how the other half lived. She drove her own Daimler, went shopping and danced with her husband and his friends till the early morning. Readers of Britain's Sunday supplements nodded in approval as they noted the new slim dimensions of her figure and the sharper, smarter cut of her clothes...
...Brombergers lay the blame for the failure of the Suez campaign to Eden's failure to start the invasion ships from Malta until after hostilities had actually begun, to his belief that victory could be won by "aero-psychological" means, and to "the conjunction of America and Russia at the U.N., [which] smothered the debarkation in embryo...
...Malta: Negotiations are under way with Maltese Premier Dom Mintoff, who surprisingly wants to get closer to Britain, hopes to see Malta integrated as closely as Northern Ireland into the United Kingdom itself. A little flattered, a little uncertain, the British want to be doubly sure that most Maltese feel the same way as their young Premier...
...British and French had all but telegraphed their intention to make simultaneous airborne and seaborne landings at Port Said. Their execution was painfully slow. The invasion fleet, much of which had to make a three-day trip from Malta, spent at least 24 hours longer than necessary reaching Port Said-presumably they idled at sea during some hesitation in British diplomatic maneuverings. In the end, without simultaneous landings and without prior bombardment the British and French dropped in slightly over 1,000 paratroopers, who were left to take care of themselves for nearly 24 hours...