Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in Western Europe...
Meanwhile, in half-a-dozen harbors in the Western Hemisphere, off ports in the Mediterranean, the St. Louis drama was repeated. At Veracruz 327 refugees from Loyalist Spain were landed from the Flandre, 104 German Jews turned back. On the Taurus at Veracruz an exiled Jewish chemist, learning that he could not land, took poison, told the captain he would be dead in two minutes, died. In Buenos Aires, 200 Jewish refugees on the Caporte, the Monte Olivia, the Mendoza, were sent back to Germany...
...British Navy is big enough to whip any two European navies, strong enough to command the English Channel, the North Sea and the whole Eastern Mediterranean, thus leaving the French Navy free to police the Western Mediterranean...
...times because of lack of raw materials. On sea, Italy has cruisers (21 in commission, twelve abuilding) that are among the fastest in the world, a big destroyer and submarine fleet, plus mosquito-boats manned by daredevils, all of which makes Italy an ugly foe to fight in the western Mediterranean. Hero of the Italian navy is Rizzo, motorboat commander who sank an Austrian dreadnought in the World War 21 years ago. June 10, the anniversary of that day will be celebrated throughout Italy as Navy...
...Elected to the presidency of Kansas City Southern Railway was Arkansas Public Utilitycoon Harvey Crowley Couch. The road's second largest stockholder, Ozarker Couch succeeds C. E. Johnston, now president of the Western Association of Railway Executives...