Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensational proposal, quickly adopted, that the navies of the Americas patrol their seas in a defined "security belt" around all of the Hemisphere but Canada. With the aid of air fleets the ships would police the territorial waters to a distance averaging 300 miles offshore, would bar all European submarines, allow belligerents' surface warships only the legal 24 hours' entry...
...possibility of giving effect to the German thesis that the European war should be ended...
...offers of help in the war to the peoples of the Falkland Islands and the Seychelles; to Grenada and the Windward Islands; to the "Council and Chiefs of the Gold Coast, Ashanti and the Northern Territory and to all members of the community"; and to "all sections of European, Asiatic and African communities of His Majesty's subjects in Nyasaland...
Italy's position astride the European fence was growing increasingly uncomfortable last week. The story came out that Benito Mussolini, still under pressure from Great Britain and France to come down off the fence and fight in one lot or the other, was making overtures to Britain by sending Count Dino Grandi back to London (where he used to be Ambassador) to talk things over. That the pressure came not only from abroad was indicated by whispered gossip in Rome that Fascist Secretary Achille Starace had formed a cabal backed by the King, the Army and the peasantry, which...
...Estonia facilities in case the Baltic is closed to her goods (i. e. by Germany) for trading with the outside world via Soviet ports on the Black Sea and White Sea; 3) Russia and Estonia undertake to defend each other from "aggression arising on the part of any great European power" (i. e. Germany); 4) the Pact "should not affect" the "economic systems and state organizations" of Russia and Estonia...