THE MEDITERRANEAN.
^ . "The Mediterranean was the most important medium of ez« - change in the old world; her shores witnessed the developmenta of the great cross-roads of history, Tyre, Alexandria, Constantinople, Venice; this sea was the centre of a nervous system which set distant peoples in motion; the development of Germany camnot be completely explained without the Popes, nor that of England or France without Caesar, nor Rnssia without Byzantinm, nor the empires of the Sudan without the salt caravans of Algeria, nor Persia without Greece, nor India without Alexandria, nor China without Saint Francis Xavier, nor America without Christopher Columbus and the conquistadors. Suddenly to-day the Mediterranean is once more a radiating centre; she has again become the hui) of international roads, of those great air xoutes which France, EnglaUd and Holland are converging towards her in a tightened knot before directing them towards their Indian possessions. — M. Paul Morand, a French author and diplomat.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 36, 5 November 1937, Page 4
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155THE MEDITERRANEAN. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 36, 5 November 1937, Page 4
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