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Last week he was appointed High Commissioner to Syria and Lebanon, a job in which his ruthless efficiency would be appreciated by a Government facing revolt in its colonial possessions. Stocky, bald-headed Jean Chiappe immediately set out for his post by air. His plane passed over Corsica and Sardinia, winged on over the blue Mediterranean toward Africa. About halfway there Jean Chiappe got a bird's-eye view of British and Italian naval forces fighting a battle. Above the warships planes dodged and swooped in an air fight. One of them (British, according to the Italians) caught sight...
...Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway; 4) demilitarization for the duration of the war of the French naval bases at Toulon, Bizerte, Oran and Ajaccio. Regarding the surrender and demobilization of the French Army, the Italian Armistice conformed to the German. No mention was made of Nice, Savoy or Corsica, for which Italians have long clamored. So humiliating to boastful Mussolini were the small favors allowed him that the Italian press played the Armistice down, featured the continuation of war against the British Empire, promised eventual spoils...
...Corsica, which produced Napoleon, who Mussolini insists was Italian, is an objective Italy should have little difficulty achieving. Malta, which belonged to the Knights of St. John before Napoleon took it in 1798, is solid rock and should come harder. Last week she let Corsica wait like a ripe plum, bombed Malta 25 times and laid mine barrages stretching both sides of it to bisect the Mediterranean and divide the enemy warships...
...During a Ciano speech, Italians began screaming for Corsica, Nice, Tunisia, Suez, Djibouti...
Whether Mussolini's Italy could be induced to stay out of the war was no longer the question. Flushed with somebody else's success, Il Duce had upped his demands to include not only Tunisia, Djibouti, French and British Somaliland. Corsica. Malta. Gibraltar and Suez, but also the two French departments of the Maritime Alps (including the Riviera) and the Haute-Savoie. On hearing this news. France called off a trade pact awaiting signature, got ready for war with Italy...