Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi government realizes that, should the Italian peninsula and Tunisia be joined under the same rule, Mussolini would obtain strategic control over the Mediterranean. And the dominance of this sea by any single nation would imperil the "drang nach Osten." Recent events have only emphasized the importance to Germany of maintaining the divided control there is at present; for the Reich, barred by a hostile Rumania from access to the Black Sea, is now trying to make Yugoslavia her vassal and Mediterranean outlet. German interests have thus come into conflict with the Italian dream of a "Mare Nostrum...
...operations, the Navy's chief interest remains what it always has been: romance, in this case between the daughter (Nancy Kelly) of a freighter's captain and a daring young engineer (Richard Greene*) on the submarine chaser S.C. 599, assigned to convoy the freighter through the Mediterranean. Result of the combination is to make Submarine Patrol, forcefully directed by John Ford, the season's liveliest adventure film. Good sequence: the wooden S.C. 599 nosing through a mine field to blow up a U-boat at its supply base...
Cardinal Mundelein's visit to Italy had other spectacular aspects. Upon arriving; at Naples on the Rex, he was met by U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, lunched by the commander of the U. S. Mediterranean Fleet, given full military honors by the Italian Government, which furnished a special train to take him to Rome. The U. S. honors, unprecedented for a churchman, were ordered by President Roosevelt...
...Erica Reed is due to make the Leftist Mediterranean ports next week, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's bombers and navy permitting. Shuttling somewhere between Villefranche, Tangier, Gibraltar and Naples were two U. S. destroyers and a light cruiser, which might possibly in some emergencies have something to say about interference...
...hulls - AMERICAN EXPORT LINES. Their fore-and after-kingposts, surrounded by a cluster of loading booms like umbrella ribs, point ambitiously to the sky. For two years, American Export's President William H. Coverdale has also been pointing ambitiously skyward: he wants to start an airline to the Mediterranean and Black Seas...