Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State Hull said a close investigation of Italian consular services would be made by Government agencies. Military authorities disclosed that they were clearing suspicious aliens out of the Canal Zone...
Little old King Vittorio Emanuele III was pressed into service. This pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) King, who really prefers peace- and for whom the Italian people preserve filial affection, was strutted off in all his regimentals to some secret "zone of operations" where he proclaimed: "Soldiers of the land...
...last week lay American Export Lines' S. S. Excalibur, loading to the rattle of donkey engines and the babble of Levantine tongues. Day before, as the Excalibur docked, three days out of Naples, Italy had declared war, and the whole Mediterranean Sea had become a war zone barred by the neutrality laws to U. S. ships. Ahead of grim-faced Skipper Samuel Norman Groves lay stops at Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut, a run through the eastern islands to Piraeus, second calls at Naples and Genoa. Then, late this month, he would head under the guns of Gibraltar towards...
...Sending warships into the 300-mile Pan-American Neutrality Zone...
...Rome last week, good Roman Catholics crossed themselves, averted their eyes from posters which blossomed on walls here & there in the city. The posters carried a blasphemous "Prayer of the Perfect Italian Fascist," which clumsily parodied the ancient supplications of Christians: Credo I believe in England, zone of tyranny, creator of sanctions and Masonic gods, and in Eden, her son, our only axman, -who was conceived by virtue of Masonic and anti-Fas cist spirits, was born out of the League of Nations, will suffer always under the spirit of Mussolini, went down to Hell with his father. . . . I believe...