Word: bari
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less than 50 miles across the narrow Straits of Otranto, at the Italian ports of Brindisi and Bari, gun crews were also active at the same hour. There, while warships, scores of other vessels, made ready to sail, heavy guns and men were loaded on transports. Three hundred and eighty-four warplanes stood by at airports...
...charity but an undeclared war of increasing bitterness caused this lavish dispersal. Ever since the British joined in voting League Sanctions against Italy during the Ethiopian crisis, the Italian short-wave radio station at Bari has poured out an unending stream of anti-British propaganda in Arabic, intended to teach all Moslem nations that the British Empire was falling to pieces, that Benito Mussolini was a proper protector for Islam...
Britain protested officially and unofficially. Italy's answer was to increase the Bari broadcasts and then start distributing to Arabs radios that could be tuned in only on the Italian station. Lately Britain has retaliated with radio sets...
Britain's new Cabinet, anxious to announce the terms of their decision to partition Palestine (TIME, July 12), met at No. 10 Downing Street last week in worried session over what might be the attitude of Benito Mussolini. Would Il Duce use his super-power radio station at Bari, which daily broadcasts in Arabic to the natives of the Near East, as an engine of propaganda to stir up the tribes and wreck partition? Would Bari even broadcast in Hebrew to stir up the Jews? During the Ethiopian crisis, Britain learned to her cost how much trouble the Bari...
...great was the Cabinet's anxiety that it decided Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden must swallow his Yorkshire pride, ask Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi to transmit a "personal appeal" to Premier Mussolini to keep the Bari station quiet about partition of Palestine. Since elegant Mr. Eden two years ago had an encounter with the Dictator at which they exchanged high words and parted on terms of mutual contempt (TIME, July 8, 1935), the Personal sacrifice asked of the young British Foreign Secretary last week was great. Count Grandi few days later brought the British Cabinet an especially courteous cable...