Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pain of severe penalties. . . . ''Britain is a rich country, Italy is a poor country, but the people of poor countries have hard muscles. The only way to explain the action of the English is that they thought they had only to mass a war fleet in the Mediterranean and Premier Mussolini would take off his hat and bow in submission. "Instead he reared up like a thorough bred horse and sent his soldiers into Africa. Viva Il Duce!" Next morning Achille Starace's men captured Gondar, and within three days the first Italian troops reached the shores...
...Neapolitans, and became great gossips with Bourbon Queen Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's sister. Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled together, with freedom and zest, they had many vices and a few virtues in common." When Captain Horatio Nelson, on duty with the British Mediterranean Fleet, called at Naples, he was entertained at Sir William's. Emma made an indelible impression...
...dwelt on the hurricanes which wreck ships going around the Florida Keys. ("I do not brag about those hazards; they are too close to Florida. ... I mention this as a fact.") He concluded: "This project is the mightiest force now available in making the Gulf of Mexico the Mediterranean of the Western World...
...gist of the report by Sir John Maffey & experts was that absolutely no occasion would exist for filling the Mediterranean with British forces, even in the event of successful conquest by Italy of Ethiopia. In the dry and dispassionate words of Sir John Maffey & Experts: "From the viewpoint of imperial defense an independent Ethiopia is preferable to an Italian Ethiopia but the threat to British interests seems very remote and would become real only in the event of war between Britain and Italy, which is an eventuality that presently seems very improbable...
...double hypothesis considered widely in London to fit the facts last week was: 1) To create a British scare which would enable the Conservative Party to win the general election, Party Boss Baldwin simply filled the Mediterranean with warboats; 2) The Mediterranean is being kept full of warboats to perpetuate the scare at least until the Chancellor of the Exchequer gets through the House of Commons the great program of $1,500,000,000 for increasing British armaments which last week had London's stock market in the flood tide of a Munitions Boom...