Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey is the "Moroccan Marshal." He was born in France but his spurs and his glory were won on the other side of the Mediterranean, in French Morocco, As High Commissioner and Resident General almost continuously from 1912 to 1925, he pacified a robber rabble, waged reforms as well as war, organized a stable government, and laid the sure foundations of a great colonial and commercial future...
Twice Maurice Bokanowski had cheated Death. During the War he served as a lieutenant, received a thought-to-be mortal wound, recovered. Later, in 1916 while he was crossing the Mediterranean on the Provence, she was torpedoed. For ten hours he clung to a bit of wreckage. Finally he was rescued by a lifeboat...
...themselves. The Suez Canal is a mere pretext, and is so admitted by British officials. Nothing would be easier than to fortify a zone on either side of the canal, instead of garrisoning the whole Nile Valley for two thousand miles. No other Power could possibly interfere. With its Mediterranean Base at Malta, the British Navy always has, and always will, control the sea, and would have no difficulty in maintaining a Monroe Doctrine for Egypt. On both sides Egypt is flanked by a limitless desert which no army could cross. . . . The British rule Egypt well; make no mistake about...
Died. Avery Hopwood, 44, prolific playwright (The Bat, The Gold Diggers'); while bathing in the Mediterranean Sea near Juan-les-Pins, France. In 1920, four plays of Hopwood authorship or collaboration were shown in Manhattan...
...Fokker Jupiter plane, he set out a month ago to tour the world. No Jules Verne hero, he intended to break no record of speed, altitude, distance or endurance. He would go in a leisurely way from Croydon Airdrome, England, to Tokyo, and back, with sundry detours about the Mediterranean coast, in South Africa, and Mesopotamia-a matter of 40,000 miles in all. A broken wing and damaged engine forced him back to London, to wait for a new plane to be built. A luxurious traveler, in any case, Van Lear Black retreated from Khartum, Egypt, by special train...