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...told that the Italian Navy is coming to gain sea superiority in these waters. If that is seriously intended, I can only say we shall be delighted to offer Mussolini free, safeguarded passage through the Strait of Gibraltar. . . . There is general curiosity in the British Fleet to find out whether the Italians are up to the level they were in the last war or whether they have fallen...
...through the 18th Century, the Spanish tried to get the Rock back. In 1779-83 they and the French besieged it continuously, finally gave up when their fleet of ships reinforced with green timber, cork and rawhide was set afire by red-hot British cannonballs. In that long siege, British General Sir George Elliot lost in action only 333 out of 7,000 men in the face of attackers totaling 40,000. Britain offered to trade Gibraltar for Florida or for Minorca, but the Spanish refused. Spain offered to buy it for $10,000,000 and the British refused...
...which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville and Schiphol (Amsterdam), concentrations of German aircraft were destroyed, including troop-carrying groups. At Borkum, Brunsbiittel and Norderney, the Fleet Air Arm joined in trying to disperse the tornado that is coming Britain...
...Yale occurred the first of two extraordinary events in Sandburg's extraordinary week. There Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to the U. S., rising to speak to alumni, seized the occasion to speak to the whole nation. Lord Lothian's subject was the British fleet...
...blunt," said he, "If Hitler gets our fleet, or destroys it, the whole foundation on which the security of both our countries has rested for 120 years will have disappeared. . . . Moreover, if Hitler beats us, the totalitarian powers will possess airplane building facilities, naval and shipbuilding dockyards and industrial resources all over Europe ... which will enable them vastly to outbuild your own defensive preparations. . . . Many people in the U. S. believe that somehow or other, even if Great Britain is invaded and over run, the British Navy will cross the Atlantic and still be available, through Canada or otherwise...