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...Italians have the makings of a just claim to Tunisia-out of which they were rather crudely muscled by the French in 1881-they have a juster claim to a foothold on the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the 15-mile-wide channel between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden now dominated by French Somaliland on one side and British Aden on the other (see map). Those who control Bab-el-Mandeb control the southeastern vestibule to the Mediterranean...
...Minister Pierre Laval signed a treaty ceding to Italy not only a piece of desert south of Libya but a strip between French Somaliland and Italian Eritrea which would have given Italy a position on the Gulf of Aden, the island of Dumeria in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and a share in the French-owned Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad...
...minute but highly strategic triangle of French territory commanding the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, thus giving Italy a potential war base in this bottleneck between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden...
...airmail service he and Capt. Corniglion Molinier, army pilot, took off from Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost to the Persian Gulf; that they found walled ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that they would attempt the trip again. Unknown to history, even in legend the Queen of Sheba emerges...