Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nations with African colonies adjoining Italy's are Britain and France, but friction has been chiefly with France. Because other parts of the Dictator's speech breathed bombast, most commentators dismissed it as all bombast. In Paris clear-headed old Louis Barthou saw things differently. Secret pourparlers began. II Duce told nearly half a million Italians, pack-jamming Cathedral Square in Milan' that he was up to something (TIME, Oct. 15)-"Our relations with France have very greatly improved in recent times," he cried. "We hope soon to reach an accord which will be very fruitful." When...
...Mutual agreement upon final demarcation of the long-disputed African frontier between Italian Libya and French West Africa...
...clock the long table in Palazzo Venezia was piled with pacts and protocols. All were signed with celerity by Mussolini and Laval, after which correspondents spent a frantic evening cabling summaries. In sum France and Italy agreed: 1) that Italy will receive some 58,000 sq. mi. of French African territory, also a share in the French-controlled strategic railway which dominates Abyssinia, and an outlet providing Italy with a port on the Gulf of Aden; 2) that Italy will aid France toward bringing Germany to a reasonable stabilization of her armaments and in inducing the Fatherland to return...
...pelted by Italian airmen with bombs. Two days later Geneva newshawks were handed by Italy's local diplomatic mission copies of a blunt, unsigned manifesto from Rome. Couched in the first person, it stated that "I will not" submit to League arbitration of the Ualual Incident. All this African fracas might just possibly be the overture to II Duce's long postponed symphony of colonial conquest...
...them do an about-face or a full pirouette in unison. Carved with great delicacy, the four figures had an animation of posture and facial expression which moved Dr. Lansing to pronounce them unique in Egyptian art. Furthermore he thought they were probably the earliest known representations of Central African pygmies...