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Sweltering hot though it is, with its beetling, sun-scorched Rock radiating heat all day, Gibraltar became hotter still last week. Italian bombers from bases 1,000 miles away repeatedly dropped monster explosions upon it. British warships in the anchorage on the Rock's west side were prime targets, the sea power that keeps Italy corked into the Mediterranean. The Italians claimed they hit and fired some of the ships. Watchers in Algeciras across the bay and in Tangier across the Strait could not tell, but they could see and hear the Rock erupt an inferno of anti-aircraft...
...thing they could not stop or divert. To the platform went a shrunken, tottery little oldster, 82-year-old Carter Glass of Virginia, a man of vinegar aspect, of high conviction, a man of law and principle, long since outmoded but steadfast in his faith in tradition's rock...
Sweating, trembling, his face rock-graven, Paul McNutt stood on the platform, drawing the greatest ovation of the Convention; a starving man pushing food away. He drew a carefully typed statement from his pocket, began: "In the first place . . ." but the crowd shouted him down. Up & down the aisles strode Jimmy Byrnes, whispering angrily: "For God's sake, do you want a President or a Vice President?" For Franklin Roosevelt had postponed his acceptance speech until the work of the Convention was done, i.e., until Wallace was nominated...
...Italy insisted last week that the British battle cruiser Hood and aircraft carrier Ark Royal were tied up in Gibraltar undergoing repairs after Italian bomb-hits last fortnight. Two small groups of big Italian bombers, each carrying two tons of explosive, appeared over the Rock one night after flying all the way from Italy (1,000 miles). A blaze of searchlights and a fierce storm of anti-aircraft fire burst from the Rock but the Italians got away after inflicting what they described as "serious damage" on the dockyard and supply dumps...
...British started digging a 13-foot ditch from the Mediterranean to the Bay of Algeciras through the flat, sandy neck (1,300 yd. wide), joining the Rock and the Spanish mainland. Evidently they had reason to expect an attack on Gibraltar, either by loud-talking Spain or by German "tourists" with whom Spain is now crawling...