Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considerations and the danger of a general war apart, it is unwise to allow the fighting to keep on until one side crushes the other. The progress of the campaigns indicates a slow victory for the rebels; indeed Italy could never allow a Communist country to dominate the western Mediterranean. If the war works itself out, General Franco may become the military head of an impoverished country with the bulk of the working class opposed and the nations which sent him troops clamoring for return favors. Another powder barrel may be put in the magazine of Europe. The alternative...
...President Thomas Jefferson 132 years ago decided to uphold the doctrine of "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!" with reference to the Barbary Pirates, one of whose chief bases was Derna. These pirates made but a modest living out of Mediterranean shipping. The British & Continentals considered it cheaper to pay moderate tribute than to go to the expense of routing such reasonable pirates. Not so President Jefferson. While the importance of landing the U. S. Marines in 1805 at Derna should not be overemphasized, it was a bold stroke and gave Europe a foretaste of the kind...
...Russia was assigned patrol of the northwest sector of the Bay of Biscay, though it was clear that her few creaky vessels surviving from Tsarist days could never stand up to those storm-lashed seas. Russia refused the assignment, "saved face" by demanding to patrol part of the Mediterranean though it was equally clear that Dictator Mussolini would never allow Russian ships to ply Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). This was all an elaborate diplomatic finesse, staged by Britain, who knew that Russia never wanted to participate in the blockade, wanted only to establish her right...
With the announcement that Italy will not let herself be outdistanced by Great Britain's vast rearmament program comes the realization that the "armament race" is on in earnest. Mussolini is going to try to equal the preparations made by his chief rival in the Mediterranean, and a hint that this will prove no easy task appears in the warning of the Fascist Grand Council that this army mean a "total sacrifice of civil to military needs...
...DANGEROUS SEA - George Slocombe - Macmillan ($2.50). Readable, thoroughgoing history of the Mediterranean Sea and shores, which able Foreign Correspondent Slocombe calls "the cradle of civilizations-and their tomb...