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Objectives. An important moment to Italy last week was "non-belligerent" Spain's sudden occupation of international, demilitarized Tangier*on the African shore, west of the Strait of Gibraltar. Marshal Badoglio's older son is secretary of the Italian Legation in Tangier. Ostensibly there are only 1,000 Italians in the population of 75,000, but there are 12,000 Spaniards, and across the Strait, Spanish demonstrators last week shouted, "Gibraltar for Spain!" Just east of Tangier along the coast in Spanish Morocco loomed great coastal guns installed there for Spain by Germany, breasting the British guns...
...around Tangier were internationalized in 1904 when France and Spain partitioned Morocco. The U. S. joined 26 other nations in the Act of Algeciras (1906), which followed Kaiser Wilhelm IPs insistence that the Sultan of Morocco continue to rule, though under French-Spanish protection. Thus the U. S. is represented in the international assembly which legislates for Tangier and the U. S. Consul is a member of the governing Committee of Control...
Spanish troops take over Tangier (international territory opposite Gibraltar...
Archaeological and ethnological collections gathered on recent expeditions to Tangier, Peru, Arizona, Burma, and the Solomon Islands will be shown for the first time in the Peabody Museum...
...ardent yachtsman like his idol, J. P. Morgan Sr., Pliny Fisk in 1919 visited Tangier on his 33-ft. Riviera. He always believed afterwards that it was there he caught sleeping sickness. He eventually recovered, but not before he "lost control of things." He quit Harvey Fisk & Sons, sold his Exchange seat for $55,000. Faulty judgment slowly took his millions. In 1924 he sold the Riviera and his $500,000 house in Rye. He dropped out of his clubs-the Union League, Metropolitan, University, New York Yacht...