Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balearic Islands. Secret agents at Palma, Majorca had noted unusual activity among the Rightist garrison and the 20,000 Italian troops quartered there, reported that an attempt was about to be made to seize the Leftist island of Minorca. The British and French have been thick in the western Mediterranean ever since the Spanish civil war began, and the New York Times was authority for the announcement that "Precautions were ordered that both British and French vessels should be in evidence to prevent any attempted seizure [of Minorca] by anyone else...
Slantwise across the Mediterranean lie the 15 Balearic Islands, of which three-Majorca, Minorca and Iviza-are large enough to show even on small scale maps. For over 200 years, Britain has cast hungry eyes on these islands that parallel her lifeline to the East, and in 1708, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain actually captured Minorca, held it on and off for over 50 years and held Majorca almost as long. Three years ago it was no secret to European war offices that British firms and British military engineers were said to be building vast fortifications around...
France too, has a lifeline in the Mediterranean. It crosses Britain's practically at right angles, passes very close to Minorca. To defend her formidable Maginot Line of fortresses against Germany, France must be able to draw troops and supplies from North Africa, from Algiers or Oran to Marseille. Transports on that line pass within plain sight of Minorca...
...adjoining room are a selection of Greek vases, mainly from the Hoppin Collection. Outstanding is the great amphora that was a Panathenaic prize. Across the room are decorative arts from Mediterranean lands. Terra cotta figurines from Tanagra, phials of Roman glass, and Tuscan gold earrings are preeminent in this group...
...blame for whatever ultimate difficulty the new Washington policy may cause them. The Prime Minister went out of his way to add: "We were sincerely rejoiced that it was found possible to come to an agreement with the Italian Government as to the patrolling of the Mediterranean by French, Italian and British warships [TIME, Oct. 4]. If we could once make real progress in the settlement of the Spanish problem, the way would be open to those conversations which formed the subject of the recent correspondence between Signor Mussolini and myself...