Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Eden, but when he rose to reply the Prime Minister was white with controlled fury. "People may say we are acting from cowardice," he growled. "We, as trustees of the people, ought to remember that if there be war in this country-I mean nearer than the Mediterranean-they will pay for it on the first night with their lives! . . . The first blow may come on the day that Sanctions are applied against an aggressor...
...ready to believe that the new Lifeline of Empire is better, stronger and more glorious than the old. It runs clear around Africa, past the ominous Cape, whose storms were once so deadly to sailing ships. It is no narrow, canalized affair of jealous Europe's pesky little Mediterranean or rebellious Egypt's Suez, but a broad route over the bounding main...
...Anglo-Italian rapprochement desirable but it is necessary, and I will do everything in my power to bring it about. ... I do not see why there should be an armaments race in Africa. The garrison in Libya [adjoining Egypt] will not be withdrawn until an entente in the Mediterranean can be brought about, but the whole force will be brought home as soon as the British ships are withdrawn. . . . We are not a people given to rancor...
When the bill arrived Marstrand Fishing Co., greatly excited, notified Lloyd's. Lloyd's outlawed Girl Pat, notified its agents along the Atlantic and Mediterranean to watch for her, then came to the conclusion it would be cheaper to pay the ?3,000 insurance than to run the tiny craft down and bring her back. Hence, no orders were issued to hold Girl...
...feet which traced the course of His Majesty's Government's attempt to keep Italy out of Ethiopia and uphold the League of Nations as an instrument for international peace. Censor Wilkinson did not object to a shot of the British Home Fleet entering the Mediterranean, but he did object to shots of British troopships going to the same place and to the Voice of Time's announcement: "British troops follow the fleet to the garrisons of Malta and Egypt. There is even talk of closing the Suez Canal." Censor Wilkinson found no fault with a long...