Word: djiboutis
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...declined to share the expense of pacifying the country after it revolted against the extravagant grandson, Ismail, of able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French terminal of the railroad from the Red Sea to Addis Ababa, and bombed Aden, British control port opposite Djibouti. His object apparently was to meet blockade with blockade, bottle up the British and what was left of the French in the Middle East and harass them until Hitler should...
...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...
Frantic Allies. Desperately France and Britain worked to remedy their mistakes. To a reported offer by France of a free port at Djibouti, minority rights in Tunisia and a seat on the Suez Canal board. Il Duce replied coldly that the offer was "too late and too little." The British Government, angling for eventual help from Russia, rushed Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps to the Kremlin, where he is well liked. But was there time to get help from Russia? To smooth relations with Spain, His Majesty's Government sent Sir Samuel Hoare as Ambassador to Madrid...
Wants. Next step of Il Duce in his new frame of mind was to make perfectly clear that Italy's minimum aims remain in time of war what they were in peace: 1) Djibouti; 2) representation on the board of directors of the Suez Canal Co.; 3) guarantees for the Italian minority in Tunisia. He made it equally clear that anything above minimum would be in no sense repugnant to Italy...