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Word: mediterraneanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vive Daladier! Vive la France!" rang out with spontaneity in Corsica, Tunisia and Algiers last week as Premier Edouard Daladier toured France's Mediterranean and North African possessions. The Daladier visit was officially an inspection of French defenses. Actually it was France's firm reply to recent, inspired Italian clamor for Corsica and Tunisia. Last week's answer told Italy: "Just try to take them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: They Are French! | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...little crisis" which agitated the western end of the Mediterranean last month, when Italians "spontaneously" demanded Tunisia and Corsica from France, popped up again last week in the southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: More Munich? | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the 15-mile-wide channel between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden now dominated by French Somaliland on one side and British Aden on the other (see map). Those who control Bab-el-Mandeb control the southeastern vestibule to the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: More Munich? | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...half-dozen British consulates in Rightist Spain. If they found the person who had tried to use Vice Consul Goodman as a pigeon to carry military secrets to the other side, they failed to announce it. But a general spy hunt was launched from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Case of the Dirty Shirt | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...weary after eight counteroffensives to retake the Ebro River salient. Generalissimo Franco is determined to throw everything he has into one Big Push before Britain's Prime Minister meets Premier Mussolini at Rome early in January. A Franco success, such as his smash-through to the Mediterranean last April, would give II Duce a good talking point on which to demand belligerent rights for the Insurgents from Mr. Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: The Big Push? | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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