Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That volcano of unrest in European politics, the Mediterranean district, has recently displayed unmistakable signs of increasing activity. To the three great Western countries, England, France, and Italy, who hold large stakes in the lands surrounding this inland sea, have been added the two Balkan states, Roumania and Jugo Slavia, who emerged into the Class B Power class after the World War and to a certain extent replaced in the politics of the Near East dismembered Austria and red Russia...
...Nile. She claims special interest, and intends to enforce it, in the Egyptian army and frontiers. Egypt's hesitation about acceding to this demand will avail her nothing. More logically than ever Egypt is an essential link in Britain's Empire. Not only the Suez and the sea passage to India, but the protectorates in Traz and Palestine, the virtual protectorate in Persia, all these make control over Egypt doubly important to Great Britain...
...mention this here without any intention of starting a polemic. What has happened? The Locar-noist nations arm themselves furiously by land and sea, indeed some of these nations have even dared to speak of the war of doctrine which their democracies should have waged against this irreducible Fascist Italy which is antidemocratic, antiliberal, antisocialist, anti-Masonic [applause...
...mediocre interest for us, but one of the posters they carried bore the following inscription: 'From Trieste to Riga.' It is mad, paradoxical, grotesque, but it is a fact. Therefore the precise, fundamental duty of Fascist Italy is to reach a maximum strength with her armed forces on land, sea and air [repeated, prolonged applause...
...upper end of this tube was split into two branches?one supplying Mr. Beebe with air, the other connecting with a delicate telephone receiver. Thus, Mr. Beebe utilized the column of air which kept him alive, to transmit the sound waves of his voice to an amanuensis at the sea's surface. The device was contrived by Dr. Mark Barr, English physicist, who accompanied the expedition...