Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explicit so that in them may be recognized condemnation of the invasion of Manchuria, the assassination of [Chancellor] Dollfuss [of Austria], the Italian aggression in Ethiopia, the foreign intervention in Spain, Japanese aggression in China, the bombardment of open cities and massacre of working populations, and piracy in the Mediterranean...
...Biscay where last week Rightists were crawling over tremendous mountains ever closer to Leftist Gijón, but the five consecutive fronts form a writhing battle line that snakes a full 1,000 mi. from the French frontier near Jaca round Madrid and ends in the Mediterranean Sea between Málaga and Alicante. There are about 500,000 troops on each side to defend this line and the country behind it, and more of the 1,000 mi. is fortified and actually entrenched than these figures would indicate...
...Premier Mussolini got back to work in Rome this week his aides predicted he would reject, but not too brusquely, a cordial new British-French note in which these Great Powers were understood to propose that, in exchange firstly for granting Italy "full parity" with themselves to patrol the Mediterranean against pirates (TIME, Oct. 4), and secondly for extending "conditional belligerent rights" to Spain's Rightists and Leftists, Italy in return should agree to a scheme of withdrawing all volunteers now fighting in Spain. Neither Rome, Paris nor Britain seemed likely to take an adamant position...
...boat and train to Paris, where in a small secret office his enlistment papers were filled out and approved; by train to Marseille and thence, by night and with all lights darkened, in a freighter across the Mediterranean-so John Sommerfield, young English Leftist writer, got into Spain to join the Loyalist Army. Landing, he was rushed to Albacete ("when I saw the name on the station it meant nothing then"), where in an ex-nunnery the collection of foreign volunteers later to be known as the International Column were being drilled for combat. Here he had his first chance...
...broadcasts to the world by himself and Hitler, significance of the big show was well charted in advance. The mere fact that II Duce and Der Führer were laying their heads together had cooled off the recent hot British and French determination to browbeat Italy on the Mediterranean "piracy" issue (TIME, Sept. 27). Masked by the eruption of news from Berlin last week, there met in Paris quietly a conference of Italian, French and British naval experts-with Russia pointedly excluded. According to Paris dispatches, Britain and France were now ready to concede to Italy that she should...