Word: valletta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...false colors sailed boldly past the British war boats guarding Gibraltar into the Mediterranean. There, still flying the French flag whenever it suited his purposes. Lieutenant Niemoller became "The Scourge of Malta," daringly sank two troopships and a British manofwar, even laid German mines in the very harbor of Valletta...
Maltese rejoicings at the narrow escape of Prime Minister Baron Strickland from a would-be-assassin who fired at pointblank range (TIME, June 2) were about to culminate in the singing of a glad Te Deum in St. John's Cathedral at Valletta last week, when suddenly this hymn in praise of God for what he had done was countermanded by Archbishop Caruana...