Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elongated, mountainous Crete, fourth largest island in the Mediterranean,* has two distinctions: it is potted with prehistoric remains, has long been the spawning ground for revolts. From Crete, Eleutherios Venizelos, a native of the island, launched a political career in the course of which he became Premier of Greece no less than seven times. From Crete, in March 1935, he supported one of the fiercest revolts in modern Greek history, seized several warships, only to have his revolt squelched. Old Venizelos fled to Paris, where he died year later...
...months, the balloon, billowing up in the Teruel-to-the-Mediterranean front, has been in Leftist hands. Last week, unable to stand up under the downpour of shells, bald-domed General Jose Miaja, commander-in-chief on the Leftists' southern front, inched his troops backward, holed up in new trenches dug across the neck of the balloon in the rugged Sierra Espadan Mountains. Against this straightened, bristling front line of barbed wire, concrete machine-gun emplacements running from just northwest of Viver, 34 miles from Valencia on the Teruel-Sagunto road, to the seacoast 30 miles away, the Rightists...
...olive brown troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Rightist Army drove on through the vineyards, the fruit and palm trees of Spain's Levant last week. Edging down the Mediterranean coast a few miles a day, they camped each night a little nearer Valencia. Capturing the once pleasant and prosperous resort of Nules and the little town of Villavieja, two miles inland, as the week ended the Rightist Galician troops commanded by General Miguel Aranda were within ten miles of Sagunto, 25 miles of Valencia...
While Italians may have enough bread to eat this year, it will not be the kind they want. Il Duce, ever conscious that in event of war a closed Mediterranean would leave Italy seriously crippled for food and raw materials, annually stores part of the wheat crop as a war measure, sells a sizable portion abroad for needed foreign exchange. Thus last year, while the nation on paper produced enough for home use, Italy in fact suffered a wheat shortage. Bakers, unable to purchase sufficient wheat flour, eked out their dough with substitutes like corn flour, bean flour, ground lentils...
...been skimping recently on their contributions to the Empire; 3) Sig. Mussolini's opposition to Freemasonry. Bolshevism, speculation in foreign exchange, in all three of which he suspects Jews of being active; 4) his fear that a Jewish national home in Palestine (see p. 18) would make the Mediterranean less Roman. He would like to solve the Zionist question by transferring the Zionists from Palestine to Ethiopia. Then the Arabs in Palestine would be let alone and international capital would be brought in to develop the Empire...