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...added fleet appealed to about half (49.8%), undertaking to guarantee its exports as well, appealed to only 19.5%. Though U. S. foreign policy should be directed to "keeping Japanese ambitions within reasonable bounds" (56.2%), most executives thought this could be accomplished peacefully. They were skeptical about trade with the Orient, reflecting a growing disillusionment with foreign trade. A surprising 29.2% favored U. S. contraction toward self-sufficiency, instead of expanding foreign trade...
...only use Italy has for such a land is to threaten Britain's hold on the southern entrance to the Red Sea and the route to the Orient, a hold otherwise confined to the port of Aden across the Gulf and the island of Perim in the strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia...
Coolest of all the 21 Republics to what was done at the conference was Argentina, who would love to be the best U. S. South American neighbor if the U. S. would reciprocate. If Argentina is to orient herself into this hemisphere's policy, Argentines say, the U. S. must take some of the meats and grains that formerly went to Europe, which the food-surfeited U. S. has so far refused to do. This week Argentine Delegate Dr. Leopoldo Melo was in Washington, where he hoped to wangle an agreement to get into the U. S. some Argentine...
This immemorial gateway from the Orient to the Mediterranean has an inner and an outer gate. The inner gate is Port Said, which is the focus of British strategy throughout the region. The outer gate is the island of Perim at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden. In World War I the British found their enemies, the Turks, in Asia and drove eastward and northward from the Canal into Arabia, Palestine and Syria. In World War II, when Italy declared war in June, the British found their enemies on the other side of the gate and faced about...
Last time, with their naval bases at Alexandria and on the island of Cyprus, they commanded the eastern Mediterranean, keeping open their short trade route to the Orient. This time that route is cut farther west, by Italy in midMediterranean, and the British Fleet protecting the Canal found another function: to threaten Italy in the Mediterranean, raid her supply lines and cut off completely the Italian forces in East Africa (which now includes what once was Ethiopia...