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Sidi Mohammed-el-Hadib, Bey of Tunis: " I visited France and inspected some aviation camps. Said I: ' My religion does not permit flying; it is likely to give the Almighty the impression an insignificant mortal is trying to attain heights to which he is not entitled before death.'...
After 42 years of bitterness and four years of protracted negotiations, the sting has been drawn from the major cause of ill-feeling between Italy and France, by the conclusion of an agreement regarding Tunis.
In 1878 at the Congress of Berlin France was encouraged by Bismarck to seize Tunis. Three years later the French took advantage of native disturbances to occupy the center of the ancient Carthaginian empire. Italy had long regarded Tunis as her own property, where 50,000 Italians lived and prospered...
In 1915, the Treaty of London, which won Italy to the side of the Allies, promised rectification of the frontier between Tripoli (Italian) and Tunis, in Italy's favor. France cedes Italy two oases and a strip of territory. Italian schools in Tunis will enjoy equal privileges with the...
Carthage. The excavations under Count Byron Kuhn de Prorok and the Prince de Waldeck have been suspended, but a more systematic scheme of operations will be started later by arrangement with the French authorities. A Roman chapel and Punic tombs were unearthed. The government has been aroused by indiscriminate vandalistic...