Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Paris was prepared for "trouble in Tunisia" and that the Army was ready to fight there might well be deduced from the fact that just a few weeks ago old General Maurice Gamelin, Chief of the French General Staff, carefully inspected the defenses of Tunisia, and particularly her fortified frontier with Italian Libya...
...Excellency Roberto Farinacci ("Italian Jew Baiter No. 1"), who that very day had been promoted to Councilor of State.* The screams of all Italian Deputies meant of course that Italy was asking France to give her Tunisia as the Reich was given the Sudetenland, without a fight...
Optimum. There was reason to think that Italy, far from imagining that France can be bluffed into handing over Tunisia without a fight, much less into handing over Corsica, or Nice or Savoy, is trying mainly to get or keep other things. Il Duce in the past few weeks has already got France and Britain to recognize his conquest of Ethiopia. That is in the bag, and it was a big part of the original Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935, et seq.). There are also the beautiful Spanish Isles, Majorca and Iviza, now effectively occupied by Mussolini...
...Government to give its political and economic policies a second thought was evident. Significantly, Robert S. Hudson, secretary of Britain's Department of Overseas Trade, rose in the House of Commons last week, condemned the German barter trade methods in eastern Europe, and served notice that Britain would "fight and beat Germany at her own game...
Hall to the Redskins, Hail victory, Braves on the warpath, Fight...