Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amid the popping of champagne corks, Premier Pangalos arose and proclaimed himself the head of an absolute dictatorship over Greece: "Henceforth, with the help of the Army and Navy, I will govern as dictator. Greece in a few months will have a fleet dominating the eastern basin of the Mediterranean, and the strongest army in the Balkans...
...Mediterranean has lost another republic to the monarchists. General Pangalos has set his standard above the prostrate constitution of Greece. Like the two other Mediterranean peninsulas of Europe, she also has definitely succumbed to a dictatorship...
...Spain are really that) is startling to the votaries of government by the people. In these southern lands, popularly elected representatives are apparently incapable of wrestling with the problem of a critical period. Latin temperaments are ill-fitted to serve the causes of democracy. The political machinery of Mediterranean capitals grinds much less easily without the lubrication of fear, or admiration, to drive it forward. It is hard for the American, accustomed to a Congress, plodding undisturbed, to picture the torments of a Republican government in Southern Europe with all the responsibilities, all the antagonisms, and all the difficulties...
...Edward VII and George V have served successively as Sovereign Head and Patron of this Victorian revival. In consequence of such royal patronage, British warships will be required to fire an official salute upon the approach of the knightly-cruise ship, which is scheduled to leave for the Mediterranean in March...
Spuming, plunging, bumping dolphins, the steamship Conte Biancamano rushed across the stormy Mediterranean last week with His Eminence Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York priest of Sancta Maria in Via - Rome. Cardinal Hayes had with him his entourage and the last U. S. contingent of Holy Year pilgrims, for on Christmas Eve the Holy Doors close on this year at jubilee. For that ceremony they arrived in Naples in good time but they reached Rome late by one day to attend the resplendent, the rare Public (Extraordinary Consistory at which five cardinals received their red hats; and late...