Sixty miles off Gibraltar on a dead calm day last week, several British ships of war were maneuvering, a grand sight for passengers on the sleek, two-funneled French steamer Florida, homing from South America.
In the doorway of his swank deck cabin Don Victor Baross, consul for Uruguay at Malaga, Spain, stood watching the naval show. He spotted H. M. S. Glorious, one of the fastest aircraft carriers in the world. He noticed that this mother ship was calling back to her broad deck a zipping brood of "Flycatcher" combat planes. As the planes...
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