Word: archipelagos
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bahamas form a long archipelago, and Mariguana Island, where the Navy will have a base, is 375 miles from Nassau. The exact nature of the base has not been decided. Only at Trinidad, perhaps a major spot in the defense, had no site for a U. S. base been agreed...
...felt as he did about the Italian usurpers set out on a venture that would have appealed to Ulysses. They boarded a motorboat at the Greek isle of Samos, just off the Turkish coast, and chugged through the night to Gaidaro, one of the islands of the Italian archipelago. Landing secretly, they surprised a police station, captured the chief and three of his men. Discovered and attacked, the raiders shot three Italian sailors, skipped to their launch, chugged back to Samos with their prisoners...
...hard-boiled Ettore Muti, who resigned as Secretary of the Fascist Party to get actively into the fighting. After several days he turned up alive, whereupon Mussolini gave him a silver medal (his ninth) for organizing and leading an October long-range bombing raid on the defenseless Bahrein Archipelago oil fields...
...port of Haifa on the Mediterranean, Italy took a running jump last week, landed at the far edge of the Middle East. Out across the sands of Arabia to the Persian Gulf it sent a squadron of heavy bombers, driving at the oil depots and refineries of the Bahrein Archipelago...
...invade you it will only be to teach you that you are not occidentals." As Mr. Quezon well knows, Japan would not even have to make a military invasion. Quezon's islands would drop like ripe fruit. Japanese farmers already have a strong foothold in the archipelago, and Philippine independence would mean the end of a U. S. market which has absorbed 85% of Philippine products. Recently Quezon had his Assembly pass an immigration law, aimed at Japanese infiltration, limiting the quota of every country to 500 a year. Commenting on this law, a Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said...