Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Scotsman lay dying in London Clinic Nursing Home last week while his doctors kept from him the fact that Britain has filled the Mediterranean with war boats. The shock of knowing that, they said, would surely kill Arthur Henderson. Wracked by jaundice and gallstones at 72, he was still president of the General Disarmament Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments...
...drum up every ounce of prestige they can in the eyes of British voters, His Majesty's Government were booming along early last week with nearly 500,000 tons of war boats in the Mediterranean and with the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill making a banquet speech in such elated Rule-Britannia vein that he woke up the next morning to say: "I do not think we should go about striking these attitudes. There might be a terrible cost for these fine gestures...
First lead: "The bitterness against France for its pro-Italian leanings threatened to burst all bounds in London today, while tension in the Mediterranean grew worse every hour...
Next lead, 24 hours later: "The black war clouds which have hung over the Mediterranean all week were blown apart today. . . . Millions . . . do not yet realize how dangerous it was. . . . Today's solution has the merit of giving all three countries [Britain, France, Italy] something they can call a victory...
...already held for some time this British morning-after view. Early last week Premier Laval had at last intimated strongly to London that some of Britain's 147 war boats should be withdrawn from the zone of tension, leaving only some 80 fighting craft, the usual British Mediterranean Fleet. This fleet has secured to Britain command of the Mediterranean since the War of the Spanish Succession 230 years ago, according to Mr. Churchill, who is slated to be the next First Lord of the British Admiralty. The French position was that Britain should not now have more than...