Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tramp of marching Fascists in Barcelona. Despite the official assumption in France and Britain that the triumph of Generalissimo Francisco Franco constituted no danger for them, there were facts that could not be disguised. Italian troops are still in Spain. Italy occupies lock, stock and barrel the strategic Island of Majorca. German guns back of Algeciras dominate Gibraltar, are able at any time to threaten Britain's Mediterranean "lifeline." Both France and England would have much to fear from German submarine bases on Spain's northwest coast, four of which, by well-authenticated reports, have already been established...
...been reported that France and Britain would seize the Island of Minorca, still held by the Loyalists, and might even march into Spanish Morocco if the Italians did not evacuate Spain at the war's end. Radical Socialists believed M. Daladier to have confirmed these reports when, underlining his words, he said to them: "It is characteristic that British and French warships are now cruising in the Mediterranean along the coast of Spanish Morocco as well as near the Balearic Islands...
Died. Robert Hallowell, 52, self-taught U. S. artist who, with Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly, was one of the founders of the New Republic in 1914; of a heart attack; on Staten Island...
...Chamber of Deputies there were shrill demands-mainly from the Left-that France renounce the Spanish non-intervention policy and openly aid the Spanish Loyalists, just as Italy and Germany are openly helping the Rebels. The realistic French General Staff was reported to be contemplating occupying the Island of Minorca and Spanish Morocco if the Italian-backed Rebels win the war. There were scary rumors that the Rebel-held side of the French-Spanish frontier had been fortified. There were predictions that a Mediterranean "Munich," with Italy the victor and France the loser, was in the offing...
Last July VR6AY, Pitcairn Island, informed W21XY, Queens, Long Island, that ships were avoiding Pitcairn because of false rumor of typhoid, and that the islanders needed food and medicines. W21XY (Radio Amateur Dorothy Hall of Queens) got in touch with Manhattan' British Consulate, got help started for Pitcairn (TIME, Aug. 1). Since then she and W2KSZ (Victor DeGhett of Brooklyn) have kept in regular touch with the island...