Word: somalilanders
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...raud (Pertinax), known for his information sources in the French Foreign Office, cabled to the Baltimore Sun: "Italy is hastening all kinds of preparations in Libya. She is accumulating war material and building an airdrome in Kufra. She is gathering troops along the borders of French Somaliland. As to Germany, she will have 1,500,000 men under arms about March...
...take me too seriously," the Deputy said. "I am not asking you to make war on Britain, but we ought to clear up a question that threatens to compromise French rights. We have occupation of factories, occupation of the Rhineland, occupation of Ethiopia and now part of French Somaliland and, finally, of the Minquiers Islands. Nobody has ever done anything about any of them...
...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...
...Italian Premier Mussolini and French Foreign 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...
...traffic is Italian. The only way the colony can get to the sea without using the line is by way of the new but much longer highway from Addis Ababa to Assawa (not to be confused with the dead-end military road from Assab south to the Somaliland border...