Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arranged last week by that most ominous go-between Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. In the first years of the World War, while military attache at the German Embassy in Washington, he was charged by the U. S. Secret Service with paying for the projected blowup of the Welland Canal. It was von Papen who went between Hitler and von Hindenburg, with the ultimate result that an Austrian-born painter of picture post cards became Dictator of Germany. To escape assassination by Nazi radicals who hate him, swank Franz von Papen became Minister in Vienna (TIME...
...Canal would ultimately devolve upon Egypt. Said Egypt's Premier, after receiving Sir Miles: ''Everything is going well." Few weeks ago the treaty negotiations were "nearly wrecked," according to Egyptian statesmen, by British Cabinet demands made at the insistence of the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, onetime British War Minister. These "extreme and humiliating demands on Egypt," a member of Premier Nahas' entourage beamed last week, "the British have now dropped...
TRANSITION also printed some modernistic musical scores, black-&-white reproductions of modern paintings and sculptures, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, the songs of the Fox Indians of Iowa, a plan for an elaborate surgical pavilion on the bank of the Suez Canal and a list of the words that crop out most often in the dreams of Editor Jolas...
...Imperial and Oceanic" were the significant words in this key pronouncement by Sir Samuel Hoare, for they implied a brand new concept of Empire strategy. Since the Suez Canal was opened (with Britain as a major shareholder since 1875 by Disraeli's finesse), the King's subjects have been taught that the "Lifeline of Empire" runs through Suez. This shortest route to India must at all costs be dominated by Britain, so ran the popular dogma and so the British Admiralty has stiffly held. Today, however, with Italy triumphant and formidably facing Suez, London was fast telling itself...
...extent the new Lifeline of Empire is already tingling with British trade. Last week London newsreaders were assured that an amazingly large volume of British tonnage which used to go via Suez is now rounding Africa, with the further good news that so much is saved by not paying canal tolls that the cost is "about the same." Famed Hector Charles Bywater, usually considered the journalistic mouthpiece of the British Admiralty, came out with the great discovery, which would have been dismissed a short time ago as nonsense, that via the Cape of Good Hope it is only 10% longer...