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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 navvics, and red fezes stand mechanics, tramcar drivers, plas. talking under the fuchsia terers, who make up a big part
trees at the corner of the straggling avenue
of the Italian colony, live.
Out west in the villas and flats. wealthier Italian business An Italian labourer comes out are
men, shopkeepers and lawyers. of the one-price store opposite. There are 94,000 Italians in climbs aboard # tramcar to
Tunisia, the French say, against Carthage; steel helmeted
108,000 French. But the Italians policeman on traffic duty mo- scoff at these figures and claim tions three white-robed women,
Hongkong Telegraph. their faces covered with black, to be in the majority, saying the
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visor-like stockinette vells, to make way for an official car bound for the Regency.
Outside the Cafe Royal Mme. - secretary's wife, still Parisi- eline with high heels and furs. waits to take tea with Mme.-. judge's wife.
countless
French counted in all the people born Italian but who have be come naturalised and are now French.
"And why not?" reply the French.
no
Whatever the numbers, doubt the great majority of the
FRANCE
alouric
NICE
Corsica (French)
ITALY
Комс
SICILY
SARDINIA #Italian)
MEDITERRA
ALGERIA
TUNIS
100 2:00
(Fr.)
MALTA
Corsica: Ceded to France by the Genoese 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 108,000 French residents.
the new hospital, but they muke, on the whole, good money and live well under the French flag.
More than 5,000 of them, too, nro Jews, who formerly were fervent Fascists and are now completely anti-Mussolini.
FOR
a second argument the Tunisian Fascists say: "We were here first. When the French troops marched into Tunis in 1881 there were more Italian traders hero than French."
The French reply: "And so what? The Italians were just as free then as France to take Tunis if they wanted to. Musso- lini can't complain if his prede eesHors were too alow off the mark."
But what about the Tunisians the themselves? What about two and a half million people of the country, who range from olive-skinned city dwellers of the north-whose Arab blood is mingled with Greek, Sicilian, Maltese to lean peasants who work in the fields and in the phosphate and iron mines, and to Berber headmen of the de- sert?
who were
And moving swiftly on bony Italian colony are organised in- to one solid disciplined block,
What about the Bey of Tunis, THE NEWS that Hungary has brown legs, on every pavement, controlled directly by the Fas
drilling in the school courtyard who nominally still rules, whose every roadway, go
next door with little wooden signature in wavy Arabic must. joined the anti-Comintern Arabs in grimy white, or brown, cist authorities from Rome.
be at the bottom of every decree THERE are two local rifles. bloc will not surprise observers or grey robes.
Henleins, though both The second leader is thirty- issued by the French? This is Tunis City this hot
Santa- The present Bey is Sidi Mo- of events in Europe. That the
afternoon, in this corner of hotly deny they are anything of eight-year-old Signor move is not unanimously - North Africa, which France has the sort. One is the Italian maria, volatile, tough, dark-eyed hammed el Habib, descendant of
Consul, Signor Lanza. Bald- member of Mussolini's old guard, Turkish aristocrats proved by Hungarians is in-and Mussolini wants.
headed, of neat military ap sent here six years ago to edit sent here to rule when the coun- dicated, however, by reports of
THE French of Tunis pearance, he came here after the propaganda dally paper, try was still part of Turkey. The Opposition dissent in Parlia-
have no doubt why winning his spurs at the Consu- "L'Unione." His mother is Eng- oldest member of the family al- wants this strip of late in London during the days lish. He works in a room sur- ways succeeds to the throne. mountain, desert and plain, as of sanctions. From the new rounded by five portraits of the Sidi Mohammed is a grey-beard- country.
big as the British Isles. If he Consulate, where the goki Fan- Duce and signed photographs of ed man of seventy-eight, living at present on the north const in Among the subdividers of
once has it he will be boss of cist emblem stands over. the Ciano and Balbo.
His paper joins the Rome a new palace which bears strik-. Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary had the central and perhaps all the doorway, he controls Italian
schools and hospitals, the work- Press in making the case of the ing resemblance to the Brighton the best claim historically and Mediterranean.
is the corner, of ers welfare society, and other Italians in Tunis appear as that Pavilion. For Tunis
He is said to have exclaimed racially, and was perhaps the
Africa which runs closest to organisations through which the of an oppressed minority-or, least satisfied.
On the map, if your eye ideas of Italy and the Duce are rather, oppressed majority. But angrily when he heard of the new "We fight to the runs along the toe of the Italian kept ever before the eyes of the there is no strong case. They Italian claims:
through the Italian colony.
may have not quite all the last man, rather than peninsula's boot.
necessary; the under Italian rule," This minute, as I write, dirty Italian schools island of Sicily and continues west, it comes to Tunis.
little boys of the Sons of the Blackshirt uniform is forbidden,
BUT this gesture must Wolf Fascist organisation are and red-tape difficulties delayed
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The Magyars who came under the rule of Prague by the Treaty of Trianon had counted themselves Hungarians for cen-' turies. Although better treated than most minorities in Europe no strong outside pull was re- main liner and warship routes in
the Mediterranean. quired to turn
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 grey moun- of threats which supported the seawards towards
tains in the east. German and Polish demands.
"Fifteen or twenty minutes' The Government at Budapest, flight away to the cast by a fost threatened both from the left bomber is the Italian island of Pantellarin, which Mussolini has'
AFTER UN HOMBR and right by internal political turned into a solid fortress," he IF you want a good thing from Sicily you have to pay for 11." I pressures, and seeking financial said. "Bombers stability, had no little cause for could reach here in forty-five am sure you have had that said
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not be over-estimated. For the Tunisians are not war- liko, and the Bey is out of touch with the mass of the people.
It is in the narrow, covered-in. streets such as the old bazaar; where merchants sit cross-legged outside 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 twelve Arab women in the whole of 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-
ALL women will know what ground.
meant by matching A Frenchman who has lived minutes. We are standing to you many a time in many aernes In a film-It is very khere 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
France held both shores of the this one, best, but it is rather pattern, which Hungary is not prepared, English Channel."
too dear." physically mentally, Bela
You Just cannot get quality with HE paused and turned out cost, and a big part of quality Imredy's Government is engaged
in the direction of the in Alms to-day is colour. in agrarian reforms, breaking crumbling columns of the ruined
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whom I dine at their houses, but "But, modom," the patient sales I have never met their wives, girl will explain. "You can never and we never talk of them." The get two pieces of cloth to dye Just favourite dress for men is still a the same.")
The art director finds an extra pro- flowing Arab robe, which always blem in colour. Besides building his looks rather as if they had jump-
match his perspective, he has to sets full size, in miniature, and in ed out of bed and taken the first money: but we shall be careful and They are not permitted by the say he needs only an extra £1,000. Koran to touch alcohol, but they
Now we have all our settings. Or,
10 familiar are not strict here. if we work according
Their opinion, on the whole, film plan, we shall most probably be building them month after our for once agrees with the Bey. £1.000-a-week afar arrives from They don't love the French since Hollywood, but we'll skip that by
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saying our star is being fitted for his the riots of last April, when In Alms we run out of twelve were killed by troops. slacks. breath before we run out of alibis.But they love the Italians still
Anyhow, we have to light ur sets legs. with three times the amount of it-
mination needed for black-and-white
up some of the big estates, and city of Carthage that lay below and more people are being converted seeking to hold off the Hun-us amid fussy white suburban to it as it gets better. To you it may colours. That takes money, a lot of sheet or blanket along to wear. not matter whether aims are tup villas of to-day.
pence coloured or penny plain, but garian Nazis and preserve par- "The old Carthaginians knew the difference between the tuppence
plenty, liamentary forms. A war would that if the Romans once had and the penny to the man who inakes
power here they would be rulers colour pictures end that effort.
of the Mediterranean," he said.
A Story With Colour Hungary's fear of war is at "That is why they sent Hannibal,
ET us suppose we are to an end, unless, of course, the elephants and all, to Europe to
make a picture in colour, September crisis in revived and march over the Alps on Rome.
Where do we begin? That is why the Romans, too,
First of all we have to choose a the whole of Europe is plunged thundered for a year, 'Carthage
The Arabs of Tripoli bring re- treatment something with the into chaos. It may be taken for must be destroyed, until finally story that lends itself to colour
which would be unwelcome to the ranted that the price of Hun-100,000 Roman troops amashed pageantry of "Sixty Glorious Years" lm, and we have to double our staff ports of strict Italian rule there,
old Carthage to bits and sowed or the natural beauty of "Men with
easy-going Tunisians. Mean- Wings." garian participation in the anti-the ruins with salt. The pro-
while they adopt a wait-and-sce All of you who have cameras know Comintern bloc is comparative blem is still the same now as that two of the most impressive
is rather a big ret we policy. things to photograph are the sky and
THIS
ure using. We have 148 They stroll from the bazaar to freedom from Internal Nazi then at bottom.".
Back in Tunis I stopped the the son. It would be good, I think, are lamps, trimmed and lended by the European cafes in the boule pressure, at the expense of de-car at the end of Jules Ferry-to have'n colour fim of a sailing ship 80 electricians ut is. dd.
omething like John Masefeld's each. I am told by Leonand John vards, watching silently this now mocracy elsewhere. It means, [avenue, where the cinomas and "The Bird of Dawning."
Hewins (usually called Len), aca European rivalry, developed by Let us make this our story. in effect, that Germany has shops have finally given up the
Denham, that the the shore of the Mediterranean extended its orbit further into struggle of Europeanisation and The sea will do us nicely as it is, candle-power on this set would light Sea which, despite the blood
[a town like Aylesbury, or the Queen the south-east, has pushed its left the field to streets of squalid we'll leave that, but we must Mary, or the rond from London to spilled in a thousand battles on its shores, still keeps an atmos- frontier to Rumania, the only one-storey yellow houses, forget it because we shall have in
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 113⁄41⁄2d.
About fim, I think we had better phoro of matchless blue and sil- nation that now separates Ger-children played in the sun; studio scenes, Including
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