Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy alone stands in the way. Since 1934 all of Mussolini's moves have been aimed at driving wedges between the Allies' Eastern and Western Fronts. From Sicily, Sardinia and the Spanish Balearics, the Italians menace Britain's island of Malta; from Libya they threaten Egypt. Off the coast of Asia Minor they have a naval base at Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there...
...first thousand years of the Christian era the little island of Britain was overrun by hordes of men who rose up out of the sea. In the Fifth Century came the Angles, from somewhere on the bleak coast of the Baltic. Ships brought them, and when their kings died they were buried in ships with their bows pointing toward the sea. Last week on a hilltop estate near Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, diggers unearthed for a Mrs. E. M. Pretty a funeral ship that had lain untouched under a mound of earth some 13 centuries...
...precocious young newspapermen are the sons of Britain's Princess Royal, Viscount George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 16, and the Honorable Gerald David Lascelles, 15. Since 1936 these young men have edited and distributed to their subscribers (now 200 at 55. a year) an illustrated monthly called The Harewood News. Heretofore Harewood News has been read chiefly for its illuminating racing tips, supposedly written by the publishers' father, Lord Harewood. But last week Viscount Lascelles and the Honorable Gerald Lascelles made banner headlines in London's newspapers...
...read about Countess Edda Ciano in TIME, but at first no reason was given for the ban. Questioned by the daily press, which saw something dangerously approaching censorship, the wholesalers attributed the ban to their fear of libel suits. In the 15 years it has been circulated in Great Britain TIME has never been sued for libel. Though startled by the ban in a country which boasts of its free press, TIME planned no action, left the business of Britain's press censorship up to Britain's press itself...
...with C. I. O.'s James B. Carey. Only urgent business in Atlantic City and Paris kept away A. F. of L.'s William Green, France's Edouard Herriot (they sent messages). Among the speakers were bigwigs from Poland, Sweden and no fewer than seven from Britain, headed by Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had come to address a U. S. audience for the first time. Columbia's Anglophile Nicholas Murray Butler beamed on his visitors, bestowed honorary degrees on four of the Britons (and one on M. Herriot In absentia...