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The French Jumped Their Claim"
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France to-day. The Italians always: held that the who supreme ruler. French had "jumped, their claim." ed their "pro- They refused to recognize the Fren-` It is of course impossible to put accepted. For ch Protectorate for fifteen years back the clock of history and until s supreme; but that is to say until 1896. For there recently French and Italians have Resident-General is no doubt that the earliest settlers lived side by side among the Ber- The. Bey has (in modern times) were the Ro- bers, the Moors, the Negroes, the mans, and afterwards the Italians, Jews, and the nomadic Arabs, and and that this, immigration has had have been quite content. They have its effect on the Berbers of Tunisia indeed made a colony of their own,
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and portions of Tunisia strike even the hasty traveller as Italianised. One has the impression even to-day that the Italians outnumber the
VAUXHALL French. Yet the latest figures show
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that, in fact, the French are now more numerous than the Italians. The Italian dispute the figures, and in any case they urge that the French have naturalized original Italian settlers...
This statistical dispute is really without interest; it remains true; that the French have established their administration, and that Tuni- sia has prospered under their con- trol. It is altogether unlikely-not to say impossible that the French would in any circumstances" consent to be ousted, or that the British would allow them to be' oùsted.
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Since, however, it is the business of diplomacy and of diplomatic writers--to find a modus vivendi, it should be admitted at once that the Italians have a special place in Tuni- sia Indeed they have hitherto en- joyed privileges. They have been very largely autonomous. They have kept their nationality. It is true
that the French can denounce the accords which date back to pre- French days but no responsible per- son would contemplate such action. It is true that Benito Mussolini agreed with Pierre Laval to an even- tual assimilation of Italians, and that he has since repudiated the bar- gain of 1985 on the ground that the French applied "sanctions" to Italy. It would seem that the whole ques- tion is reopened.
It can be settled without dif- foulty provided a friendly atmosp- There is created. It cannot be settled
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