Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba's great Cespedes (1819-74) promulgated the island's first Declaration of Independence in 1868, proclaimed an underground Republic which Spain could not stamp out for ten years. His son & namesake was Provisional President for 25 days after the exit of Gerardo Machado...
...captain to major, perhaps to a colonelcy or even to the final glory of a general's stars. For his wife: the same, plus a lifetime with other army wives. How some of them live was told last week in a whitewashed room at Fort Jay, Governors Island...
Japanese cities in the west, which would be the first victims of a Soviet bombing raid from Vladivostok against the Island Empire, enforced full air-raid precautions. Cables from Tokyo said the Home Fleet was being deployed, was "ready for any eventuality...
Elongated, mountainous Crete, fourth largest island in the Mediterranean,* has two distinctions: it is potted with prehistoric remains, has long been the spawning ground for revolts. From Crete, Eleutherios Venizelos, a native of the island, launched a political career in the course of which he became Premier of Greece no less than seven times. From Crete, in March 1935, he supported one of the fiercest revolts in modern Greek history, seized several warships, only to have his revolt squelched. Old Venizelos fled to Paris, where he died year later...
...Leader Mitsotakis expected his uprising to spread he was disappointed. Soon airplanes from Athens droned over the island dumping leaflets warning peasants to remain loyal. Later in the day. the leisurely Greek fleet, carrying two infantry regiments on its dirty decks, steamed into