Word: malta
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Britain's Mediterranean island colonies of Malta and Cyprus are both giving Mother Britain trouble, but in very different ways. Cypriots (or at least a highly vocal percentage of them) want out of the Commonwealth; the Maltese, on the other hand, want to cuddle even closer to the mother country. In some respects, the Maltese desire is more embarrassing...
Such complete integration is an old dream of young Prime Minister Mintoff, son of a onetime British navy cook stationed at Malta's dockyard. A Rhodes Scholar and civil engineer, ambitious young Mintoff has been a leader in Malta's Labor Party since 1936, and Prime Minister since last March. "If I fail in this," he said last week, "I shall resign, and the others will have to govern Malta as best they...
...Canterbury shoemaker, but records show that he was a brilliant student. He won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Young Marlowe, as everyone agrees, translated Ovid, wrote poems and plays (Hero and Leander, Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, Edward II, The Jew of Malta). Records indicate that he was a homosexual and an outspoken atheist, also suggest that he was a secret agent of Queen Elizabeth's government. In 1593, a long charge of atheistic crimes was drawn up against Marlowe, but before he could be brought to trial (if such was intended) he was stabbed to death...
...that time as to the rightness or wrongness of Yalta? The President was brisk-and very positive. Said he: "No." Then he pointed out that he did not go to Yalta, but sent his chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, to the pre-Yalta conference at Malta to report on the military situation as it then existed in Europe...
...Malta, four days before Yalta, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Stettinius that the U.S. need not grant such concessions to Russia. "In his view," report the State Department's minutes of the Malta Conference, "if the Russians decided to enter the war against Japan, they would take the decision because they considered it in their interests that the Japanese war should not be successfully finished by the U.S. and Great Britain alone. There was therefore no need for us to offer a high price for their participation...