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Word: mediterraneanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right raised a great howl because Spaniards who were driven from Irun by the victorious Whites last week were permitted to enter France on the Atlantic coast and put aboard "sealed trains" which soon delivered these Reds back into Spain at the other end of the Pyrenees on the Mediterranean coast at anarchist Barcelona. The Blum Cabinet, striving to maintain its precariously neutral position, explained that these Reds were only receiving the customary humane treatment accorded refugees, and that anyhow most of them paid for their tickets on the "sealed trains." The penniless were carried free. On the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Red, White & Cellule | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...With the raising of sanctions, there has seemed to come a vigorous revival of efforts for appeasement. This is evident on many sides. The inspired Italian press is encouraging a renewal of Italy's traditional friendly relations with Great Britain. The British have withdrawn in good part their Mediterranean fleet in response to the Italian gesture, and they have supported France in various Continental moves for better understanding, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lamont on Peace | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...consider the European situation that they asked and received Cabinet assurances that the Prime Minister will not leave England. Young Anthony Eden, the luckless Foreign Secretary, had to announce last week that Britain has further capitulated to Italy by abrogating upon specific demand by Benito Mussolini, the Mediterranean naval pacts she made with Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia as a "Sanction." German Questions as they emerged from the House of Commons' final debate : Is Adolf Hitler ever going to answer the diplomatic questionnaire sent him by Anthony Eden over three months ago? What chance is there that Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Five Days Notice | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...fortify Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar, and to use one of the Balearic Islands as a naval base. The Spanish Fascists were a long, long way from victory last week, but if they should succeed and if there were any truth in this rumored deal, Britain's control of the Mediterranean would be virtually nullified and France would be left a buffer between three Fascist States. Fortunately for the plight of the radical French Cabinet of new Premier Léon Blum, week-end reports indicated that Spanish Loyalist forces were successfully holding their own, possibly had a slight edge over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Passion Flowers | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...ceiling on reading the draft of the proposed Montreux pact, claimed that its concessions to Russia completely upset the balance of power. Germany claimed that before a war between Russia and Germany the Soviets would have plenty of time to move their Black Sea Fleet into the Mediterranean and around to the Baltic, thus getting an unfair headstart on the German Navy. Openly Nazis threatened to tear up their agreement to limit their fleet to 35% of the British Navy unless something was done about this contingency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pie | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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