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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Lord of the Admiralty: Winston Churchill (see p...
...fleet at these ports, Britain claiming damaging hits on at least two battleships, Germany claiming to have shot down five out of twelve bombers. Soon to be settled, apparently, was the question of supremacy between airplanes and battleships. The answer has vital bearing on the Mediterranean question mark (see p...
...before, B. Mussolini's Council of Ministers announced that in the German-Polish war, "whose origin lies in the Versailles Treaty," Italy would take no part. And B. Mussolini, in his reply to Franklin Roosevelt's plea for humane bombing (see p. 13), repeated once more that Italy was not fighting anyone just...
...well knew, and Italy would suffer the full fury of the French Army and two navies. She would probably lose Ethiopia, have to fight hard to hold Libya and not starve. And the Turks would make life unbearable by driving behind the Greeks at Albania (see p...
...situation created by the West Wall-Maginot Line stalemate, a neutral Italy, blocking access to Germany via the Tyrolean passes, had tremendous nuisance value. It would force Britain & France to go clear around through the Dardanelles, Black Sea and Rumania to assist Poland and establish the Salonika front (see p. 22). It was nuisance so great that it might bring B. Mussolini a fancy price if he chose to sell...