Word: westernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor: "We understand what you mean, Dick, but I'd like to see you after school for a few minutes. Now, let's hear about our other mid-western invasion from Ducky Pond of Yale...
Last week Bailey (Commerce Committee chairman), Pittman and other Senate shipping buffs got together, unlaced the jacket. The U. S. merchant marine was to have been confined to the Western Hemisphere; under the new amendment U. S. ships may carry nonwar supplies 1) to all ports in the Western Hemisphere south of 30° north latitude; 2) to any port in the Pacific or Indian Oceans, including the China Sea, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. The President is granted discretion to declare out of bounds all North Atlantic shipping routes (including that to Canada via the Gulf...
Great Britain and France won War II's biggest victory last week, but the scene of success was neither at the front nor on the sea nor in the air, but rather in quiet, faraway Ankara, capital of Turkey, 1,600 miles from the guns of the Western Front. There, 25 years almost to the day after Sultanate Turkey had entered World War I on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary, a new Turkey, now republican in form, signed a treaty with Britain and France which made the onetime enemies allies-on condition...
...alliance specifically exempted Russia and was only indirectly aimed at Germany, the full force of it was felt in Italy. The Italian-owned Dodecanese Islands lie just off the coast of Turkey: British and French warships are now assured of ample bases in the eastern as well as the western Mediterranean; and the Allies' new partner has an army of 700,000 ready to fight in the Mediterranean area...
...officially said where the B. E. F. was stationed, but everyone knew: on France's low-lying Belgian border from Lille to Hirson, right where the "Old Contemptibles" took their stand 25 years ago. They were assigned this position because, if the Western Front develops a war of movement, the movement will most likely come through the Dutch-Belgian door. The B. E. F. consists of a dozen divisions of troops mostly mechanized and motorized. There is one vehicle for each six men. A break-through by the Germans anywhere would be most effectively rushed...