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The empire of Napoleon about 1810. after the congre •• of Vienna. The kingdom of in 1861. Tuniaia. pr•• ent French-Italian •.arencr."

HE AGE-OLD territorial Back of the aforementioned dispute between the Ital- specific claims of Italy is what Tians and the French has may be termed a general claim flared up again. In the past it to territory. This Is founded was that reached out The Mediterranean Marathon upon the treaty of London of for lands at the expense of the Italian state. was to Austria in 1866 led to the Incor- said to compare favorably with railway from Djibouti to Addis 1915. In this compact, as a re- . Today it is Italy that be a buffer state between France poratlon of Venice in the united France, Italy the famous Maginot line of Ababa was completed in 1917. ward for Italy's entry into the wants lands at the expense of and the smaller states of Italy, Italy. It was not until 1871, how- France. Of late newspaper cor- Italy's first hold on Italian World war as an enemy of Ger- France. which at that time were Parma, ever, that Victor Emmanuel en- respondents have taken to call- Somallland dates from 1889. Its many and Austria, the Italians Italy's proposals for imperial Modena, , the papal tered Rome and the Eternal Renew Land ing it the Maginot line of Africa. first colonization venture in were to have a share in any Afri· expansion involve the protecto- states, and the kingdom of the city became the capital of Italy. The only way invaders from the Eritrea was in 1885. It's con- can territory acquired as a re- rate of and French So- two Sicilies." It should be point- Napoleon all those ten years east could get around this sys- quest of Ethiopia was only yes- sult of the war. maliland in Africa, the purely ed out that Sardinia, then mere- from 1861 to 1871 had refused tern of fortifications would be terday - 1935 and 1936. The What they actually got was French areas of Savoy and Nice ly a buffer state, was the nucleus to permit the occupation of Rivalry by a detour of several hundred country is not yet completely a sliver of land known as Juba- in Europe, and the historic Med· of the present-day Italy which is Rom e . He had maintained miles into the waterless desert. pacified. land, which was detached from iterranean island of , threatening France. French troops there for the pur- By JOHN A.MENAUGH France's African native troops e e • Great Britain's Kenya colony; ported protection of the pope- are said to be the best desert a bit of worthless desert land where Napoleon Bonaparte was e e e born, The Italian government he didn't want to lose the sup- protectorate, and in 1896 Italy fighters in the world. Out ot the dispute over French on the southern fringe of Libya, in addition wants a share in the The ambitions of another port of the French clericals. formally agreed to the protecto- Italian claim to French Soma- Somallland the Italians make the gift of the British and the rate, with the understanding control of the Suez canal, which member of the Bonaparte fam· Italy's participation in the in- liland, which has brought a de- two points that seem fairly French; and a few islands in is owned by a French company ily later in history led to French ternational scramble for far that Italians In Tunisia should mand for outright cession of the clear. They are: the lEgean sea which they had but defended by the British interventions in Italy. When colonies naturally came after its be permitted to retain their na- port of Djibouti and the French- That French Somallland, par- occupied since the war with Tur- tionality. On Jan, 28 of this army and navy. King Victor Emmanuel II. of establishment as a kingdom. It owned Djibouti· Addis Ababa ticularly the port 01. Djibouti, Is key in 1912. While Italy, from the fall of Sardinia sought to expel the actually began to reach out for year the French took their first railway, linking Ethiopia with the actual gateway to Ethiopia What some observers, Includ- the Roman empire until compar- Austrians from Piedmont, his foreign possessions In the early step toward direct annexation the coast, is founded on confus- and as such should be Italian Ing Dr. Arthur Scott of the his- of the country. atively recent times, was a land territory on the Italian main- eighties. It never, as the king- ing diplomatic exchanges that territory. tory department of the Unlver- without political unity, a land land, so that this region could dom of Italy, owned Corsica. Its They have constructed an reach back more than a genera- That Italy has a claim on sity of Chicago, believe to tie of many states, some independ· be expanded into a kingdom of claim to that island presumably elaborate system of fortltlca- tion. French Somaliland because in the underlying cause of Italy's ent and some not, the Italian northern Italy, Napoleon III. of is based upon the fact that the tions in Tunisia facing Italian The French acquired French 1935, through a Franco-Itallan current cry for territory Is the people of today nevertheless France agreed to supply 200,000 republic of , a former in- Libya to the east. This system, Somallland through treaties with agreement, a portion of the feeling on Mussolini's part that have been encouraged by Musso- troops to assist in the task. dependent Italian state, pos- called the Mareth line, is four Somali sultans In the years from country was ceded to Italy. Germany is getting all the lini to think of their nation as Austria at this period o.f history sessed Corsica uninterruptedly miles deep and extends from the 1883 to 1887. By a treaty with But Italy herself has repudl- " pork." Germany's annexation a revival of the empire once was a direct threat to Sardinia, for 161 years, from 1568 to 1729. coast near Zarsis to a point far Great Britain in ·1888 the south- ated this agreement on the pre- of Austria and Sudetenland, in ruled by the Ceesars. by trying to halt Its growth In From the last- named year, which down in the desert. Zigzagging ern limits of this land were de- text that it never was formally other words, has given the Ital- Frenchmen centuries ago ex- Italy. This was in 1858. marked the outbreak of a rebel- through mountains and marked fined, and by protocols with Italy ratified by the two contracting lans the idea that they, too, can ploited Italy. During the time But Napoleon III. put a price lion in Corsica, until 1768 there all along its extent with mud- in 1900 and 1901 its northern nations, and the French have get land by asking for it or mak- of Charlemagne the empire of on his alliance with Victor Em- was almost constant trouble in camouflaged gun positions, it is limits were fixed. The French reoccupied the ceded area. ing a bluff at taking it. the Franks (western Europeans the island, in which of German origin) extended Great Britain and down into Italy a Im 0 s t to Sardinia both Inter- Naples. In 1495 Charles VIII. vened. of France crossed the Alps, In 1768 G e n 0 a marched to Naples, and there signed a t r eat y had himself crowned. His inva- transferring the I~ lovely skin can make him sion is remembered from the sovereignty of the fact that it was his soldiers who Island to France. spread the plague of syphilis Two years later / throughout rentral Europe. a general assembly of Corsicans was say II love yoU !1I e • • called, the deputies swearing a l l e- giance to the From 1530 until late in the SAYS THIS CHARMING CALIFORNIA BRIDE eighteenth century the Italians French crown. had no history of their own, For the nex t their lands, except those held nineteen years Cor- LOS ANGELES, CAL. by the church, being under the sic a remained a d e pen den c y of E,'ery girl sholl/tl kllou' Jh"J lovely skitl domination of the Spanish and is tb« khul oj charm JhaJ makes a man France. Then came Austrian dynasties. Although Jtly ,"11M'e you." Alia Cilluay helps brinK the quarrels between the French the rebellion of (JIlttbis ch"nll-lhaJ's why 1always use il! and the I t a I ian s extended 1789 and the island (Si,l,ud) MARY Lou DAVES through the centuries, the mod- was incorporated jm""".\' >, JC)JY (Mrs. D. L. Dares) ern aspects of their territorial into France as a dispute date from the time of separate de p a r t- YOVE brings such happiness! And the first Napoleon. ment. As the reo L you have far more chance of As a general of the French reo sui t 0 f another winning romance if you have a public Bonaparte overran Italy. insurrection the lovely complexion. "Men find a He destroyed the maritime re- (Three Liona photo.) Corsicans offered lovely skin irresistible," says charm- public of Venice (Venetia) when Memorial to Corsica's 40,000war dead. their sovereignty to ing Mrs. Daves. "That's why I urge he seized it on the pretext that Great Britain, and every girl to be loyal to Camay!" manuel. He was to get back for British t r 0 0 P s occupied the it was hostile to him in his cam- Everywhere,girls like lovely Mrs. island for two years. Bonaparte paign against the Austrians and France the provinces of Nice Daves are using gentle Camay for in 1796 sen t an expedition that it threatened his line of and Savoy. The Sardinians and they've found no other soap seems against the island and regained retreat. In 1797, however, he French were victorious. Napo- to have quite the same rich, fragrant it for the French. For a short handed it over to Austria by the leon, however, feared Prussian lather. Camay cleanses fhfn'ollghly while after the fall of Napoleon peace of Campo Formio. It reo intervention, so he concluded an and yet it's so wonderfully mild. the British once more occupied verted back to France during early peace with Austria, which You'll like Camay-for your daily Corsica, but in the settlements the time of the empire after left the Italians with the suspi- complexion care, ami for a fragrant of 1815 it was restored to France Napoleon as the first emperor cion that they had been be- bath of beauty. You'Jl find its reo and ever since then has reo had crowned himself king of trayed. freshing lather a marvelous help to malned French. Italy on May 26, 1805, in the Francis Joseph of Austria all-over loveliness, and the dainti- cathedral of Milan, using for ceded the former territory of ness that wins romance. the purpose the ancient iron Lombardy to Napoleon, who in e e • Get three cakes of Camay today. crown of Lombardy, a former turn handed it over to Victor This fine beauty soap costs very Iit- independent Italian state. Emmanuel. France took its reo Italy's annexations in Africa tle-and proves such a luxurious aid The French empire of Napo- ward-Nice and Savoy were reo had the i r beginning in the to exquisite skin! leon controled all of Italy except linquished to Napoleon on May eighties. Her control over Libya the islands of Sardinia and 24, 1860. dates from 1912, after her" sue- . Most of the Italian main- These two regions, then as cessful war against the Turks. land was under direct rule of now, were French both geo- Italian claim to Tunisia, in France, while the southernmost graphically and linguistically. which Mussolini wants a share Carnay part, the kingdom of Naples, A plebiscite held about the time of the administration, is based of their return to France was largely upon the fact that there was a subject state, with a king The Beautiful appointed by Napoleon. carried overwhelmingly by the were more Italians than French Soap of Women After the collapse of Bona- pro-French element among the there when the French took pos- parte's rule the powers that had voters. session in 1881. In addition crushed him agreed a m 0 n g On Feb. 18, 1861, the first there is the purely sentimental themselves at the treaty of Italian parliament met at Turin claim built upon the memory of Paris and the congress of Vien- and Victor Emmanuel was pro- ancient Carthage. The Romans na to restore a large part of the claimed king of Italy. Modern took Carthage, in what is now THE BRIDE'S BEAUTY SECRET HELPED JANE WIN HER MAN I Italian political boundaries to Italy was born. This was just Tunisia, as an outcome of the two weeks to the day before Lin- third Punic war. what they had been in the pre- Your ,kin ne.ds g.nl'.r Sh. wa, righ' aboul eoln's first inauguration as Pres- In 1869 Tunisia was under the Napoleonic era. There were cI.onsing, Jon•. Try Camay Camoy I My ,kin I••,s so diiiF* Ident of the United States-an joint domination of Great Brit- .Ct..'" some exceptions made, however. -it help.d my,kinl much Ir.,h.r I The old republic of Venice and event introduced into this article ain, France, and Italy, and in ?~~Ij[~,/", a portion of north Italy down to to show the relative youthful- 1880 the Italians acquired a rail- "'j"~./ / M~ ,~/. I way in the land from British a point below Milan were def- ness of the present-day kingdom ~ ~ initely assigned to Austria. In of Italy. While Italy, as pointed owners. The following year ~:;'=~\()/-. ~ ~ .:;Jy IQ the settlements France ceded to out, is only seventy-eight years French troops moved into Tu- ~ '1"4 ~'vi; the the old, its king comes from an nisla from to punish ~~ ,\'~~,\ ) II~,~ I 7:/ provinces of Nice and Savoy. ancient line, the house of Savoy, hostile tribesmen. They have ( Also to Sardinia went the terri- which for nine centuries reigned been there ever since. They per- Jan.', happy now I She know, Bill tory of the former republic of over Savoy and Piedmont. suaded the ruling bey at the ",£W>:.~ can'l r.slsl h.r radianl complexion I Genoa, a one-time Independent The war between Prussia and muzzle of a gun to accept the