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This is what
France is not going
to let Italy have
-by- Geoffrey Cox
TUNIS, Thursday.
and women talked at the door.
IVE Arab youths in ways of their homes.
This is the "poor Italian" dis- cheap European suits trict of Tunis, where nuvvies, and red fezes stand mechanics, tramcar drivers, plus-
TRANCE
NIGE
ITALY
ROME
the new hospital, but they make, on the whole, good money and live well under the French fing.
More than 5,000 of them, too, are Jews, who formerly were fervent Fascists and are now completely anti-Mussolini.
FOR a second argument
the Tunisian Fascists "We were
here first.
were
When the French troops marched into Tunis in 1881 thero Buy more Italian traders here than
French."
Corsica (French)
Balearic
say:
SARDINIA (Italian)
MEDITERRA
(Fr.)
ALGERIA
TUNIS
MALTA
100 200
talking under the fuchsia terers, who make up a big part
trees at the corner of the of the Italian colony, live."
Out west in the villas and flats straggling avenue
An Italian labourer comes out are wealthier Italian business of the one-price store opposite, men, shopkeepers and lawyers. There are 94,000 Italians in climbs aboard a tramcar to
Tunisin, the French say, against Carthage: a steel helmeted
108,000 French. But the Italians policeman on trafile duty mo scoff at these figures and claim tions three white-robed women to be in the majority, saying the their faces covered with black, French counted in all the people visor-like stockinette veils, to
born Italian but who have be- make way for an official car
come naturalised and are now bound for the Regency.
French.
Outside the Cafe Royal Mme. -, secretary's wife, still Parisi- enne with high heels and furs, waits to take tea with Mme judge's wife.
have
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"And why not?" reply the French.
Whatever the numbers, no doubt the great majority of the Italian colony are organised in- to one solid disciplined block, controlled directly by the Fas-
"
Corsica: Ceded to France by the Genocae in 1768,
Nice: Ceded to France
in 1861.
Tunisia: French Protec- torate, where Italy claims more rights because it con- tains 94,000 Italians against 103,000 French residents.
tirilling in the school courtyard next door with little wooden rifles.
The French reply: "And so what? The Italians were just as free then as France' to Lake Tunis if they wanted to. Musso- lini can't complain if his prede cessors were too glow off the mark."
But what about the Tunisians Lhemselves? What about the two and a half million people of who range from the country, alive-skinned city dwellers of the is north-whoso Arab blood. mingled with Greek, Sicilian, Maltese--to lean peasants who the work in the fields and in phosphate and iron mines, and to Berber headmen of the de- scrt?
AND IN USE IT IS A BIG PIANO; ment and agrarian unrest in the Mussolini wants this strip of inte in London during the daye lish. He works in a room sur- ways succeeds to the throne.
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Among the subdividers Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary had the best claim historically and racially, and was perhaps the
least satisfied.
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BUT this gesture must not be over-estimated. For the Tunisians are not war- like, and the Bey is out of touch with the mass of the people.
And moving swiftly on bony
What about the Bey of Tunis, THE NEWS that Hungary has brown legs, on every pavements every roadway, go countless
who nominally still rules, whose cist authorities from Rome. joined the anti-Comintern | Araos in grimy white, or brown,
signature in wavy Arabic must be at the bottom of every decree arc two local bloc will not surprise observers for grey robes.
THERE This is Tunis City this hot
Henleins, though both The second leader is thirty- issued by the French? of events in Europe. That the
Santa- corner of hotly deny they are anything of eight-year-old Signor
The present Boy is Sidi Mo- afternoon, in this move is not unanimously apNorth Afrien, which France has the sort. One is the Italian maria, volatile, tough, dark-eyed hammed el Habib, descendant of proved by Hungarians is in-and Mussolini wants.
Consul, Signor Lanza. Bald- member of Mussolini's old guard, Turkish aristocrats who were dicated, however, by reports of
Bp sent here six years ago to edit sent here to rule when the coun- headed, of neat military THE French of Tunis pearance, he came here after the propaganda daily paper, try was still part of Turkey. The Opposition dissent in Parlia-
no doubt why winning his spurs at the Consu- "L'Unione." His mother is Eng- oldest member of the family al- mountain, desert and plain, as of sanctions. From the new rounded by five portraits of the Sidi Mohammed is a grey-beard- big as the British Isles. If he Consulate, where the gold Fas Duce and signed photographs of ed man of seventy-eight, living of once has it he will be boss of cist emblem stands over the Ciano and Balbo.
at present on the north coast in the central and perhaps all the
doorway, he controls Italian His paper joins the Rome a new palace which beara strik- Mediterranean.
schools and hospitals, the work- Press in making the case of the ing resemblance to the Brighton For Tunis is the corner of Africa which runs closest
ers' welfare society, and other Italians in Tunis appear as that Pavilion. to organisations through which the of an oppressed minority—or, Ile is said to have exclaimed Italy. On the map, if your eye ideas of Italy and the Duce are rather, oppressed majority. But angrily when he heard of the new The Magyars who came under runs along the toe of the Italian kept ever before the eyes of the there is no strong case. They Italian claims: "We fight to the
through the Italian colony.
may have not quite all the last man, rather than come the rule of Prague by the peninsula's boot,
island of Sicily and continues This minute, as I write, dirty Italian schools necessary; the under Italian rule." Treaty of Trianon had counted | west, it comes to Tunis.
little boys of the Sons of the Blackshirt uniform is forbidden, With this-part of Africa in Wolf Fascist organisation themselves Hungarians for cen-
are and red-tape difficulties delayed would hands Mussolini turies. Although better treated his
easily be able to cut with sub-|-- than most minorities in Europe marines and airplanes all the no strong outside pull was re-nunin liner and warship routes in quired to turn their eyes
to the Mediterranean.
I stood yesterday on a head- Budapest. And in Hungary the land above the Bay of Carthage return of these "brothers" has at North Tunis with a French Army reserve officer. He point- been a primary popular goal.
ed across a great blue sweep of Hungary alone cannot satisfy bay, where two French sub- her claims by enforcing the type marines were dark dots moving of threats which supported the seawards towards grey moun-
tains in the cast. German and' Polish demands.
"Fifteen or twenty minutes' The Government at Budapest, flight away to the cast by a fast threatened both from the left bomber is the Italian island of
Pantellaria, which Mussolini has! and right by internal political turned into a solid fortress," he
good thing from pressures, and seeking financial said. "Bombers
Sicily" you want a
you have to pay for it," 1 stability, had no little cause for could reach here in forty-five am sure you have had that said
minutes. We are standing to you many a time in many areens in it is very like here all his life said to me: "I fear that continued Czech resis- practically on European soil. If shop when you have told a matching wools or looking for a dress have many Arab friends, with tance would cause a war for Italy were here it would be as if weary assistant, "I really
like length exactly the colour of a sample whom I dine at their houses, but France held both shores of the this one, best, but it is rather pattern, (which Hungary is not prepared,
("Bul, modom." the patient sales I have never met their wives, English Channel."
too dear."
girl will explain. "You can never and we never talk of them." The physically 01 mentally. Bein
You just cannot get quality with-get two pieces of cloth to dye just favourite dress for men is still a | Imredy's Government is engaged He paused and turned
in the direction of the in mums to-day is colour.
out cost, and a big part of quality the same.")
The art director linds an extra pro- flowing Arab robe, which always in agrarian reforms, breakingerumbling columns of the ruined
blem in colour. Besides building his looks rather as if they had jump- You may not like colour, but more sets full size, In minlature, and in up some of the big estates, and city of Carthage that Iny below and more people are being converted perspective, he has to minich his out of bed and taken the first seeking to hold of the Hun-us amid fussy white suburban to it as it gets better. To you it may colore That takes money, a lot of sheet or blanket along to wear.
villas of to-day.
not matter whether films are up money, but we shall be careful and They are not permitted by the garian Nazis and preserve par-
pence coloured or penny plain, but say he needs only an extra £1,000. Koran to touch alcohol, but they "The old Carthaginians knew the difference between the tuppence Now we have all our settings. Or, liamentary forma. A war would that if the Romans once had and the penny to the man who makes end that effort.
power here they would be rulers colour pictures is plenty. of the Mediterranean," he said. "That is why they sent Hannibal,
A Story With Colour
Hungary's fear of war is at
from
internal Nazi
now as
Colour Films
What they cost,
How they're made...
to
All of you who have cameras know that two of the most impressive things to photograph are the sky and
Women Will Know
It is in the narrow, covered-in strects such as the old bazaar, where merchants sit cross-legged cutside carpet and brassware shops and students hurry to the university and the mosque, that true feeling is hammered out.
This feeling is slow in develop- ing, for the Tunisian clings hard to his old life. Women still go veiled. They say only ten or iwelve Arab women in the whole ef Tunis City go unveiled. There are still many men who have two or three wives, but these are al- ways kept well in the back-
A Frenchmun who has lived
LL women will know what ground.
is meant by inatching
if we work according to famliler are not strict here.
fim plan, we shall most probably be Their opinion, on the whole, building them a menth after our for once agrees with the Bey. £1,000-a-week star arrives from They don't love the French since Hollywood, but we'll skip that by
Would Light A Town
an end, unless, of course, the elephants and all, to Europe to
LET us suppose we are saying our star is being atted for his the riots of last April, when march over the Alps on Rome. September crisis is revived and That is why the Romans, too,
make a picture in colour. { slacks. In Alms we run out of twelve were killed by troops. Where do we begin?
breath before we run out of allbls. But they love the Italians still the whole of Europo is plunged thundered for a year, 'Carthage
Anyhow, we have to light our sets First of all we have to choose with three times the amount of liu
less. lends itself to colourmination needed for black-and-white
The Arabs of Tripoli bring re- into chaos. It may be taken for must be destroyed, until finally story that
treatment something with 100,000 Roman troops amashed pageantry of "Sixty Glorious Years" of electricians.
the film, and we have to double our staff ports of strict Italian rule there, granted that the price of Hun-old Carthage to bits and sowed or the natural beauty of "Men with
which would be unwelcome to the garian participation in the anti- the ruins with salt. The pro-
Wings."
easy-going Tunisians. Mean- Comintern bloc Is comparative blem is still the same
while they adopt a wait-and-sce
freedom
then at bottom.”
Tus in rather big ret we policy.
are using. We have 140 Back in Tunis I stopped the
are lamps, trimmed and tended by the European cafes in the boule- They stroll from the bazaar to pressure, at the expense of de-ear at the end of Jules Ferry-
80 electricians at Is. 6d. nn hour yards, watching silently this new mocracy elsewhore. It means, avenue, where the cinemas and
ench. I am told by Leonaril John Howins (usually called Len), in effect, that Germany has shops have finally given up the
aco European rivalry, developed by electriclan at Dentinm, that the the shore of the Mediterranean extended ita orbit further into struggle of Europeanisation and
The son will do us nicely ne it is.enndle-power on this set would light
blood the south-east, has pushed its left the field to streets of squalid we'll leave that, but we must not a town like Aylesbury, or the Queen Sea which, despite the
forget it because we shall have to Mary, or the road from London to spilled in a thousand battles on frontier to Rumania, the only one-storey yellow houses.
its shores, still keeps an atmos- nation that now separates Ger-children played in the sun: studio scenes, including
Blacked-haired, brown-skinned match it to our water-front scenes Bristol with lamps 10 yards apart.
In China and England and to all our order 120,000ft, of negative at 11d.
About film. I think we had better phore of matchless blue and all- many from the Black Sea. black-haired, brown-skinned men hots with models and tanks.
(Continued on Page 8.)
vor beauty.
the sea, It would be good, I think, to have a colour film of netting old
The Bird of Dawning."
omething like John Masefield's
Let us make this cur story.
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