Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey announced that his firm had been doing business with Italy for more than 40 years and was not ready to quit now. The American Export Liner Exochorda, one of the biggest U. S. freighters in the Mediterranean service, steamed out of Jersey City with the greatest cargo in her career, consisting chiefly of such near-war materials as lubricating oil, copper, motors, apparently consigned to Italy...
...Paris and London, but judging the man by his past, just what is hatching in the back of his head is anybody's guess. During the period of suspended animation President Roosevelt should be in Washington, planning to meet every exigency, so that American neutrality may be assured. The Mediterranean, not the Caribbean is the place where Mr. Roosevelt should be doing his angling today...
Greatest danger of an incident touching off a European war lay in the daily increasing irritability of Englishmen and Italians as their war boats and trade vessels elbowed each other in the Mediterranean. With the tone of reporting an Italian atrocity, the British steamer Cairo City radioed London papers that her flag-salutes to Italian war boats were not being returned "although there is still a rigid rule of the sea requiring the salute...
Britain's refusal to withdraw her fleet from the Mediterranean leads one to ponder on the exact status of what we have always been brought up to regard as the greatest navy of all time. Never before in modern history has the Admiralty been faced with a situation comparable to that now on its hands. For the first time the power of the British navy is definitely in question. The Mediterranean fleet is far superior to the Italian force in gross tonnage, but the Fascist ships are in an extremely strong position and are vastly more mobile...
Typical of the tongue-in-check attitude Laval has maintained all through the present crisis, this new suggestion takes no account of the fact that Mussolini's appetite for southern dainties must be appeased and that the removal of the British fleet would make the Mediterranean "Mare Nostrum" indeed...