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...clear that her few creaky vessels surviving from Tsarist days could never stand up to those storm-lashed seas. Russia refused the assignment, "saved face" by demanding to patrol part of the Mediterranean though it was equally clear that Dictator Mussolini would never allow Russian ships to ply Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). This was all an elaborate diplomatic finesse, staged by Britain, who knew that Russia never wanted to participate in the blockade, wanted only to establish her right...
...eight-column streamer headline: END OF ECONOMIC CRISIS. Beneath it, crowding the whole page with small, close-packed type and spilling over into an extra column, was advertised a cure-all for the world's ills. At the top of one column appeared a photograph of the nostrum's author, Anatole de la Marti. After plowing through a column or two. most readers were too dazed to proceed. But the gist of M. de la Marti's plan was to establish a "World Record Service . . . for carrying out competitions in all fields of economic activity, with...
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...
...Mare Nostrum. When the British Home Fleet's flagship Nelson left Portland for Gibraltar this departure was officially described as "for one day's maneuver." Previously the Renown and the Hood and three smaller ships had slipped away so unobtrusively that those of their 6,000 officers & crew who happened to be ashore were recalled on a few hours' notice spread by flashing the order on cinema screens at Portland and circulating it among the pubs. In strict technicality the Admiralty's knowledge of exactly where the Home Fleet might be was locked in the resolute bosom of the fleet...
None of His Majesty's subjects in the United Kingdom saw last week any such thing as a news map (see cut) of the actual Mediterranean situation: roughly one million tons of fighting craft jammed into the small sea which Romans have called for over 2,000 years Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). On paper the Mediterranean seemed "bottled up'' by British ships at its two outlets, Gibraltar and Suez. But the paws of the British Lion remained relaxed last week. Italy's transatlantic liners continued to shuttle on schedule through the Straits of Gibraltar. Italian transports moved methodically through...