Word: djiboutis
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That torrid little country (see map) is about the size of Missouri. Its capital, Berbera, is on the coast but has no port facilities. It has a municipal water system but no railway, no bank, no hotel. A coast road connects it through the secondary "port" of Zeila with Djibouti in French Somaliland which fell into Italy's hands in June...
...element in the native Ethiopian. revolt against Italy was to have been the Mohammedans, who comprise one-fifth of all Ethiopians. Stronghold of the black. Moslems is Harar, near French and British. Somaliland. A son of the late Islamic Leader Lij Yasu, who took refuge from the Italians in Djibouti, was to have led this; uprising, but France's surrender damped! the project. Last fortnight an armistice, commission ended Djibouti's state of siege,, opened to Italy its terminal of the strategic: railroad to Addis Ababa. But even without above-ground leadership, the Islamic followers of the late...
...strait there is too wide to be blocked and the barren island of Perim, whence pirates once took toll, although in British hands, does not control it so much as the nearby ports. Along the Red Sea's African Coast the Italians held Assab, Massaua and got Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden when France surrendered. The nearest British base was Aden across the Gulf...
Mussolini had gained: 1) demilitarization of a 30-mile strip along the Franco-Italian frontier; 2) demilitarization of a strip 125 miles wide along the Libyan frontier; 3) demilitarization of the French Somaliland coast and full rights to the harbor of Djibouti and the 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...
...Near East likewise first denounced, then honored the Petain armistices. This announcement affected the actions of a dozen French warships, including at least three battleships still with the British at Alexandria. The attitudes of the commanders of these French ships remained unknown, but farther east, French surrender of Djibouti to the Italians gravely endangered British control of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, far gate...