Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy peoples will be those with no colonies. Even today there is a general restlessness in colonies of the world in the Near East and in North Africa." He said that Mussolini has been taking advantage of this restlessness to the detriment of British and French power in the Mediterranean...
Hottest fighting of the week was on the Mediterranean coast between North & South Leftist Spain. Rightists under General Miguel Aranda, who first won a coastal strip and split Leftist Spain, last week drove south down the coast with difficulty, opposed by young Leftist troops well supplied with automatic rifles, hand grenades and tanks...
HENDAYE--Loyalists tonight hastily removed non-combatants from the city of Castellon de la Plana on the Mediterranean, 42 miles north of Valencia, as fleets of Insurgent warplanes sped down the coast blasting a path for Generalissimo France's offensive to isolate Madrid from the sea. More than 450 aerial bombs were reported dropped on Castellon during the last 24 hours while other squadrons dumped bombs on Valencia, Sagunte, and Oropesa...
...East, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's forces, having reached the Mediterranean, widened the breach between the two parts of Leftist territory from 25 to 50 miles last week. To bolster the morale of his troops against advancing Rightists, General José Miaja, dictator of Southern Leftist Spain, confirmed the appointment of Jesús Hernández, former Communist Minister of Education and Health, as Political War Commissar of Miaja's five armies...
...expected direct reference to Palestine, although indirectly referring to existing Italian treaty rights in connection with that mandate. 2) Britain and Italy agree to bring each other up to date each year with information on their military, naval and air forces. 3) Respecting the interests of Italy in the Mediterranean, which were to have been called "vital" while those of Britain were to have been called only "essential," this whole matter is covered by simply reaffirming the Italo-British Gentlemen's Agreement of Jan. 2, 1937. 4) Unexpectedly Italy mentioned Ethiopia's famed Lake Tana by name, affirmed...