Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stories of restiveness verging on mutiny aboard British ships sent into the Mediterranean to intimidate Il Duce have several times been carried by Italian papers, generally ignored as "Mussolini whistling to keep his people's courage...
...effect, Benito Mussolini will say "Yes" to the 125 fanatical young aviators who have asked whether they may strike a suicidal blow for Italy by diving 125 planes each loaded with a bomb into 125 ships of the British Royal Navy which now has some 200 ships in the Mediterranean...
...Suddenly the Committee realized it was not obliged to name anybody, having in the past skipped four War years and four years since. Lamely last week it announced there would be no 1935 Nobel Peace Prize award because "with war raging in Africa, Anglo-Italian tension continued in the Mediterranean and a new puppet state approaching establishment in the Far East, the time seems inappropriate for such a peace gesture...
...milk. But the one thing a Mexican President needs to rule his fermenting country is abounding, virile health. Last week, surrounded by enemies, President Cardenas to his disgust felt sick as a dog. Newshawks were told he had Malta fever, so named because British Navy men stationed in the Mediterranean once got it from the milk of Maltese goats...
...swank wits opined: "The reason Baldwin called our election so suddenly was that he was afraid the trouble with Italy might not last much longer." This frivolous view Italians could not take. From the King down they were nervous, anxious and resentful of Britain's jam-packing the Mediterranean with warships neither authorized nor requested by the League (TIME, Sept. 30). With patriotism boiling, General Giuseppe Garibaldi, grandson of Italy's "Liberator" and for years a prominent antiFascist, abruptly said in Manhattan last week that he had switched to Mussolini, was now for the war. With gasoline...