Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full sun beat pitilessly on the wide, graceful avenue that borders Sicily's Palermo Gulf. Half a mile away on the waters of the Mediterranean many of Italy's finest men-of-war were riding at anchor. Beads of sweat trickled from II Duce's dictatorial brow to the collar of his crisp white suit as he held forth from a 30-foot-high podium to thousands of Sicilians sweltering below...
...about to translate or murder my speech to note the difference between meeting Britain and clashing with Britain. . . . Britain is really living in the past in her judgment of Italy. She has a picturesque conception of Italy-a picturesqueness I detest. . . . In view of our common interests in the Mediterranean I believe it is possible to find a middle ground...
...wondered, would have the temerity to challenge Pan American on the Atlantic? Transcontinental & Western Air? Royal Dutch Air Lines (K. L. M.)? Onetime Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal and friends? Last week the ambitious newcomer was finally revealed: American Export Lines, which operates 18 ships to the Mediterranean. In Washington it applied for permission to supplement transatlantic ship service with air service...
With II Dute disparaging the significance of the Sicilian maneuvers, General Melchiade Gabba, directing the games, indiscreetly revealed that "Sicily was selected for the maneuvers deliberately to put the island's strategic importance in evidence. The new situation in the Mediterranean and Africa has shifted Italy's centre southward, thereby making Sicily the centre of gravity...
Jewish sources published hastily drawn maps which differed considerably. All agreed, however, that the Jewish State will be in the north of Palestine, mainly along the Mediterranean; that the Arab State will be in the south, mainly inland; that His Majesty's Government will retain for themselves a corridor running inland from the port of Jaffa to such Biblical holy places as Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Some Jewish insiders opined that this British corridor will bend north at Jerusalem and extend all the way to Nazareth, others were sure it would stop at Jerusalem. Most agreed that Judea will...