Word: malta
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...Duce as menacing Italy; 3) easy going by Italy from now on in the Spanish Civil War, and even easier going as to the Balearic Islands, which Britain has feared Italy might seize any day; 4) virtual abandonment by Britain of her refortification efforts in such Mediterranean bases as Malta, which Italy commands from the air today...
...Malta-Another hammer stroke of British policy last week was dealt on the Island of Malta whose predominantly Latin-Levantine-blooded citizens in 1921 were given full Responsible Government with their own Constitution and freely elected Legislative Assembly. Some of these swarthy British subjects have since shown for Italy a preference so marked that tension in Malta was extreme while Stanley Baldwin was pressing on with "Sanctions" against Benito Mussolini. Last week the Malta Constitution was abolished by His Majesty's Government, Malta was dropped from Responsible Government to the status of a Crown Colony in which the British...
Norway. With Palestine, Malta and Egypt thus strongly dealt with last week, the next British move was to crack at Norway in the dispute over whales (TIME, Sept. 7). Britain's whaling fleet, which is normally manned by Norwegians, remained last week tied up in a fjord near Oslo. Both the Norwegian whalers' unions and the Norwegian Government maintained that British soapmakers, who own many of the whaling ships, want to kill whales at such a rate that the great mammals would soon be exterminated. London papers last week described the British Government as having decided to brandish...
...vigorously devout Catholic, Adman MacManus is a Knight of Malta, a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory, an honorary doctor from Notre Dame, Detroit and Marquette Universities. Practiced at writing books such as Men, Money & Motors and The Sword Arm of Business, he turned to Catholic apologetics in An Enemy Sowed Cockles. Sympathetic with the interest of Pope Pius XI in Chinese education, Layman MacManus helped found the Catholic University of Peiping. All this smoothed the way for a request he made of the Holy See five years ago. Of the six MacManus sons and daughters...
...House of Commons same day there were cries of ''Hear! Hear!'1 for a judicious announcement by Sir Samuel Hoare that Britain will not abandon Malta. In other words, the wholly inadequate Malta defenses will be maintained as they are, for moral effect. Virtual abandonment of Malta as a main Empire naval base took place months ago when the major units of the British Mediterranean Fleet scuttled off to Alexandria (TIME, Sept...