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fully transferred to Argentina years
ago.
So, for all practica! purposes, one
more British sea gate (a maritime
control point), one vital in World
Wars 1 and II, is gone.
The Falklands sea gate is, more–
over, still vital today. One major
reason for growing Soviet sympa–
thy with Argentina (aside of appre–
ciation of grain shipments) is the
desire to obtain "fishing rights"–
in other words, a military base- in
the Falklands, the gateway to the
South Atlantic.
The Soviets know that the Strait
of Magellan, "pol iced" ou t of the
Falklands, is very crit ica! in view of
sl ipping U.S. control over the
Panama Canal.
Another chapter in this story was
written on April 1-one day before
the Argentine invasion- when re–
sidual American control over t he
police force and judicial system in
the former U .S. Canal Zone passed
to Panama.
"They're really going!" read
one banner unfurled at t he trans–
fer ceremony. Celebrants danced
and cheered in front of the pol ice
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station and court
build ings in the Canal
Zone town of Balboa
on the Pacific coast.
Also, a few days
after the Falklands oc–
cupation, 20,000
Fal–
angists
(former Franco
supporters) demon–
strated in Madrid,
Spain, in favor of
Argentina's action
against Britain.
Sorne banners pro–
claimed: "England,
Thief, Get Off Our
Rock"-a reference to Gibraltar.
Unre sol v ed Strugg le
Fiares Anew
The crisis over the
Falkland I slands re–
vives, in a most inter–
esting manner, the age–
old clash between the
Anglo-Saxon world
and the Spanish cul–
tures. Geoffrey God–
sell , in the April 7
Christian Science
Monitor,
put the strug–
gle in its true historical
context, rather than
just rehashing conflict–
ing claims and counter–
claims:
"The Falklands dis–
pute. has revived the centuries-old
clash between the English-speak–
ing and Spanish-speaking cultures.
That was decided geopolitically in
favor of the former by England's
defeat of the Spanish Armada in
1588.
"But the residue of animosity
from tbat original coll ision has not
been completely pu<ged.... Most
Britons are at least
dimly aware that their
ancestors' defeat of
the Spanish Armada
kept the door open for
the li berating conse–
quences of the Protes–
tant Reformation, for
the glories of the reign
of Elizabeth T, for
Shakespeare
and the
King James transla–
tion of the Bible.
/t
opened the door for
the colonization of
E nglish -speaking
North America and its subse–
quent history.
[emphasis ours]
" T he other side of the coin is the
sense of humiliation so often felt by
the Spanish-speaking culture,
out–
matched
(at least by force of arms)
first in 1588 and ever since
in
material and social deve/opment in
the New Wor/d."
In other words, the outcome of
that first armada defeat led to the
eventual conferring of the birth–
right upon the end-time descen–
dants of Joseph. This was accord–
ing to God's plan- even though
Pope Alexander VI, in
1493, gave Spain ter–
ritorial rights to all of
FALKLANDS TAKEOVER- The sma/1
contingent of British marines (photos top
and bottom this page) were torced to sur–
render alter a 272-hour-long battle. Argen–
tina 's Admira/ Cario Busser (center left
photo) commanded his nation's torces.
An Argentine marine (top Jeft, opposite
page) rejoices in his nation's easy victo–
ry, while jubilant crowds in Buenos Aires
react to the "recovery" of the Malvi–
nas-as the Argentines refer to the
islands. Meanwhi/e the British planned to
counterattack, employing the carriers
H.M.S.
lnvincible
(center photo) and the
H.M.S.
Hermes
(top right), whi/e Argen–
tine troops in armored personnel carriers
(photo opposite) prepared their defenses
in Port Stanley, under the watchfu/ eye of
young British residents.
the New World (with Portugal
getting a slice a year later, which
eventually expanded to become
Brazil).
lt
is interesting- almost fore–
bodingly so- that the British task
force is now, even in the Britisb
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