Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adopt a Neutrality Act well-meaning but sufficiently cockeyed for experts to agree that its legal meshes would hamper China greatly, Japan scarcely at all; 2) Japan saw the Soviet war machine suddenly weakened by Stalin's shooting of its ablest commanders; 3) the Spanish Civil War and Mediterranean mixup have so tangled Great Britain that Japan does not fear today Far East intervention by the "Mistress of the Seas...
...self-assuredly as though potent international conferences were an everyday occurrence, Mayor Schranz of 5,000-soul Nyon welcomed conferees on "piracy" in the Mediterranean to an E-shaped table in his flower-filled municipal assembly hall, remarking that some Swiss rivers empty into the Inland Sea. Nine nations were represented-Britain, France, Russia, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, Egypt-and they were there to do something about the submarines that since the middle of August have preyed on neutral shipping attempting to run food, munitions and principally oil into Leftist Spanish ports. Very quickly French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...
...sent to Geneva her hot-tempered, obstinate Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden. The British plan he brought had already been approved by France, and in short order this week the other conferees sat down and signed it. It provided that "neutral shipping lanes," in general synonymous with the present Mediterranean shipping lanes, be established and patrolled by the fleets of the nine Nyon nations- Britain and France doing most of the work. Although Britain was willing to court Italy by offering her the patrol of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the space between Corsica, Sardinia and Italy's shin, Italy indignantly...
Imperceptibly interest was already shifting from the tables of the diplomats at Nyon to blue Mediterranean waters at a spot near Cartagena. There Leftist Spanish divers claimed to have established contact with a "pirate" submarine paralyzed on the sea bottom by depth charges...
...twelve nations at the Nyon conference to register their submarines and withdraw from definite trade routes in the Mediterranean...