Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European segment ended at Crete, and the U.S. Air Force was called in to jump the arc across the Mediterranean to North Africa. The job was done by Hiran (High Precision Shoran), an electronic surveying system...
...Texan and a West Pointer ('17) with a civil-engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic, taught military science at M.I.T. and served as chief engineer for WPA before going off to war. He commanded the troops building the U.S. base in northern Ireland, then became chief of the Mediterranean base section in North Africa before going off to the Pacific theater to become deputy Army commander of the Philippines. There he signed for the U.S. at the surrender of General Yamashita's 40,000 Japanese troops, by 1951 was back in Europe as SHAPE'S chief of logistics...
...like a stack of jackstraws. Every time you touch one, you are very apt to move the whole crowd, and equilibrium is, to a certain extent, destroyed. That is what we don't want." Asked if he would order "those Marines that were sent over to the Mediterranean" into war without the consent of Congress, Ike reddened with anger. "I get discouraged sometimes here ... I have announced time and time and time again [that] I am not going to order any troops into anything that can be interpreted as war unless Congress directs...
...years, while Britain spread its empire round the world, admission to the Mother of Parliaments was confined to inhabitants of the British Isles. Last week, in a historic shift, the House of Commons adopted a plan to make the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta an integral part of the United Kingdom, entitled to elect three members to the House of Commons...
...misgivings were felt, few were expressed. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd and his opposition member on the Labor bench, Nye Bevan, joined in mutual self-congratulation. The fact was that in deciding to accept Malta, everyone was all too conscious of unhappy events in another Mediterranean colony, Cyprus. Malta's 320,000 inhabitants are completely dependent on Britain for their economy, i.e., the Royal Navy, their foreign policy and defense. And, in contrast to Cyprus, thousands of Maltese demonstrated recently by waving Union Jacks and crying, "Long live England...