Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high prices of today are, however, a boon to the cotton planting experiments made elsewhere by other nations. The French, for example, are reported to be trying out possibilities of cotton production in their Mediterranean colonies. Great Britain has been studying ways and means of increasing the cotton output of her colonies, particularly in South Africa, Egypt, Australia. Brazil, which years ago gave up cotton for other crops, is now planning to benefit from current soaring prices by again sowing her fields in cotton. It is apparent, therefore, that unless Government experts under the Department of Agriculture can shortly solve...
There are two main points which are sure to have been discussed. One concerned the Chigi Palace or Italian Foreign Office, and had to do with the promotions of a political and economic entente between the two Fascisti States. Both Italy and Spain are Mediterranean Powers, both have trade interests in South America, and both, by Fascist coups, have succeeded in reestablishing the authority of the Crown. The Entente, it was considered, will be to make Fascism a greater force in international politics and to bring both Powers into the Tangiers disputef with a common agreement...
...provision of a naval base at Singapore as essential for insuring the mobility necessary to provide for the security of the territories and trade of the empire in eastern waters; 2) necessity for the maintenance of safe passage along the great route to the East through the Mediterranean and the Red Sea; 3) the necessity for the maintenance by Great Britain of a home defense air force of sufficient strength to give adequate protection against an air attack by the strongest air force within striking distance of her shores. It was also agreed that " power should be taken to readmit...
...politics. The collapse of passive resistance in the Ruhr brought down with it England's hopes for the he-habilitation of Germany and partially vindicated French policy in the eyes of Europe. Italy has dropped her former pro-British sympathies and now seriously threatens England's position in the Mediterranean. Only a master of intrigue could mould these elements into an entente-and Pitt is dead and Lloyd George touring Canada unofficially...
World's records for distance and endurance were set when the French dirigible Dixmude soared uninterruptedly for 118 hrs., 41 min. over 4,500 miles of Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean. The distance: from San Francisco to New York and half way back; from Boston to Southampton and thence to Gibraltar...