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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Homer called it "the navel of the sea," Malta has been an island in search of an umbilical cord. 'Alone and vulnerable in the Mediterranean, 150 miles south of Italy, the rock (9 by 17 miles) has no economic value. But a fine deep harbor on its northeast shore has brought it the "protection" of a succession of great seafaring peoples, Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and for nearly 300 years, the crusading Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Napoleon cut that tie. Then came Nelson, and the island, at the request of the Maltese themselves, became a crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mother Complex | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...British proved to be the most casual of mothers. They set up a dockyard at Valletta harbor, and for more than a century, the Navy Estimates were the most exciting thing that happened in Malta, as well as the chief source of livelihood of its 320,000 inhabitants. But the island hardly interested the British until, in World War II, it became the center of bitter struggle with the Italians and the Germans for control of the Mediterranean. Then, as a British air and naval base, with the Maltese dug into its golden limestone, the island held out against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mother Complex | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

When it was over, with some 1,500 Maltese killed and 30,000 homes lost, the British awarded the island a George Cross, voted $90 million for repair, forgot about Malta again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mother Complex | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...Gothic Tale. In London, the Admiralty granted Leading Seaman Walter W. Hampson leave, flew him to his Plymouth home from Malta after his wife complained their house had been haunted for the past two months by a terrifying, headless, black and white phantom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Faced with the startling notion of accepting a distant relative as an intimate member of the family proper, Britain has tried to allay Malta's demands with a vague plan for government through the Home Office instead of the Colonial Office, but Mintoff will not be fobbed off. "We are prepared to accept all the facts that you accept here in Britain-taxation and all the rest," he told officials last week, "but we can no longer be just a naval base. We are a mature people who want our full constitutional rights, and you cannot treat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Restless Subjects | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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