Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real subject of his address will be: Italy and the Mediterranean Area. ''My first lecture," he said, "will deal with the history of the Mediterranean until Columbus discovered America and the Mediterranean lost much of its importance. The second will deal with the big struggle for hegemony in the Mediterranean, first with Spain and France and then with England...
...third will deal with the central problem of both Europe and the Mediterranean-which is Italy, with her growing population, the lack of raw materials and her want of colonies. The fourth will discuss the imperial problems of both France and Great Britain in the Mediterranean...
...Italy's importance in the Mediterranean has not yet been generally understood by the outside world, and I hope to tell America, through the Institute of Politics, what the new Italy actually means and stands for. The population of Italy is growing at the rate of 500,000 a year...
...were: Count Alexander Skrzynski (pronounced Sh-trin-ski), Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, who came to the U. S. to deliver two addresses before the Institute on the policy and economics of Poland Count Antonio Cippico, famed Facist, Italian Senator and friend of Mussolini, to speak on Italy, the Mediterranean area Robert Masson, French banker who is the virtual head of the Credit Lyonnais and during the War performed much the same service for France that Robert Morris rendered revolutionary America; eloquent Dr. William E. Rappard, member of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations; deliberate, scholarly...
...figure, as always, such subjects as the problems related to the self-governing dominions of the British Empire, agriculture and population increase, the economic recovery of Europe, mineral resources as a factor in world affairs, limitation of armaments, international justice, inter-American relations, political problems of Europe and the Mediterranean area...