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...Gibraltar. Opening the western gate of her Mediterranean cage is one of Italy's prime aspirations, and the sidling maneuvers last week of Italian submarines (some of which put into Spanish ports) and planes made it look like an early objective, an easier one without the French Fleet to aid the British...
...Britain's disaster appeared as great as that of France, even though it were not yet complete. Surrender of the French Army of the Near East would leave the British impotent there. The end of fighting in France would release German air armadas to join the Italian air fleet in smashing British sea power in the Mediterranean...
...best, Britain must fight for her life in the Mediterranean, and singlehanded defend her island and dominions. At the worst, she would be bulldozed or beaten into surrendering or sinking her fleet, leaving the U. S. between a German-dominated Europe and a Japan-dominated Asia, each with a powerful fleet...
...Saco Co. and the German Scadta System), fired all its German employes, arranged with Pan American Airways for U. S. pilots and instructors. Ecuador took steps to get rid of the Italian military mission which has been training her Army for 15 years. Argentina hastily sent her fleet of efficient river gunboats to patrol the river frontiers of Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, rushed frontier guards into Entre Rios Province, where a Nazi plot was reported brewing. The entire Police Department of Buenos Aires was reorganized after the Ministers of War and Marine charged that it was not cooperating in rounding...
...Britain will maintain her oil supply no U. S. oilmen knew for sure last week. With Norway's tanker fleet to add to her own, she may well run shipments from the Iranian fields around the Cape of Good Hope, stand the extra expense of the long haul rather than spend exchange in the Western Hemisphere. But Standard Oil's (N. J.) big refinery in Aruba, Royal Dutch Shell's huge plant in Curaçao, both in the Dutch West Indies, with a haul almost three times shorter to British ports, may also be in line...