Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PARIS--France said to have joined Britain in warning to Italy. Threat of "full force of British and French arms" reported invoked in case of Fascist attempts to upset Mediterranean status...
...Burgos radio at 2:20 p. m. on March 29 that the Spanish Civil War had officially ended. His troops had occupied Madrid, Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Jaén, Albacete-almost without resistance. Italian planes from Majorca had made a last bombing trip over Gandia, British-controlled Mediterranean port. A few anarchist soldiers were still putting up a feeble resistance in isolated districts and clean-up campaigns were bound to continue for some time. But, broadly speaking, Generalissimo Franco was right: the war was over and for the first time in 984 days Spain had peace...
Finally, Signor Mussolini himself, speaking before 65,000 Blackshirts in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Fascist Movement, did not list specific demands on France, as expected, but merely repeated many a Mussolini bromide: the axis is strong, the democracies are wrong, the Mediterranean is Italy's sphere of influence, Italy's biggest wish is peace and biggest need is more ships, cannon and airplanes. Specifically on the subject of Mediterranean conflicts with the French, he said openly that the next move was France...
...neutral French port of Bizerte, Tunisia, and was interned. In parade formation, still flying the Spanish Republic's red, gold & purple flag, three cruisers, eight destroyers and a number of lesser ships sailed in from revolt-ridden Cartagena, the fleet's base, 600 miles across the Mediterranean. Met by the French cruiser Dupleix and a squadron of French destroyers, the ships were inspected for sanitation, then, their ammunition removed, allowed to pass through the channel into Bizerte Lake. They will be held at the Sidi Abdallah arsenal at Bizerte and their 4,000 men will be sent...
...reaffirmed a non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel Beck played host to Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. It was reported that Colonel Beck lent an interested ear to Count Ciano's talk about Italy's colonial "aspirations" (at the expense of France) in the Mediterranean. Some diplomatic correspondents even reported that Italy was ready to cut Poland in for some of France's colonies, probably Madagascar, where anti-Semitic Poland might send some of her 3,200,000 Jews, which she wants no more than Germany wants hers. That shrewd Colonel Beck was not putting...