Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry reasons were, two splendid ways of looking at his neutrality remained to Il Duce. In the military situation created by the West Wall-Maginot Line stalemate, a neutral Italy, blocking access to Germany via the Tyrolean passes, had tremendous nuisance value. It would force Britain & France to go clear around through the Dardanelles, Black Sea and Rumania to assist Poland and establish the Salonika front (see p. 22). It was nuisance so great that it might bring B. Mussolini a fancy price if he chose to sell...
...Shores. Last week as fighting began the Mediterranean again took its place as a decisive theatre of war. Unlike the Baltic, where Germans and Poles clashed headon, where battle-lines and objectives were clear, the Mediterranean was a maze of variables. It was crisscrossed with conflicting currents that ran ever more strongly; it was marked with eddies and backwaters set up by the rush of opposing interests. Along its southern shore Egypt's Army of 22,500 was mobilized, but also, in Libya, were the 120,000 soldiers of unpredictable Italy (though Italian armies drew back from the frontiers). French...
...Europe, is nine per 100,000 compared with 13 in Britain, 29 in Germany. As last week wore on, as the nerves of the rest of the world unraveled like rope-ends, only one complaint was to be heard in Poland: What are they waiting for? Isn't it clear that compromise is out of the question? Why do they not begin? Soon enough of the questions were answered...
...Early one afternoon a large crowd of common workmen walked briskly through the streets of Warsaw, stopping beside clear spaces on walls every few paces, slopping paste on the walls, spreading out four posters which spelled one word: WAR. One ordered general mobilization (all able-bodied men between 21 and 40), another the prompt delivery of all motor vehicles, bicycles and horses to the State, a third prohibited the sale of alcoholic drinks. The fourth, picturing marching men, guns, tanks, planes and the handsome profile of Poland's Commander-in-Chief Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, declared: "Force must...
...Poland, ironically, where he was Papal Nuncio just after World War I) to fight against extreme ideologies, and who late in life had waged that fight-particularly against Naziism-with superhuman strength. "No good Catholic" Pius XI had said "can be a Socialist"-and before he died he made clear especially not a National Socialist...