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...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 on Gibraltar. Opening the western gate of her Mediterranean cage is one of Italy's prime aspirations, and the sidling maneuvers last week of Italian submarines (some of which put into Spanish ports) and planes made...
...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...
...Guise, 66, refugee for 66 years, must have known what was up. For bidden by law to set foot within the Third Republic, and normally resident at Manoir d'Anjou, Belgium, the Bourbon pretender to France's vacant throne turned up this week in Morocco...
...Palace grounds. Franz Josef liked her histrionics very much. Reports of their first meeting differ (she was 29, he 49), but it was not long before Käthi's husband, Nikolaus Kiss von Ittebe, had been appointed to a permanent consular post in far-off Morocco, Käthi had been given the not-so-far-off cottage, and wags in the Court guard were referring to their Emperor behind his back as "Herr Schratt...
Meanwhile the managers of London's popular El Morocco bottle club were haled into Bow Street Police Court for putting on a strip-tease competition among female guests, the winner to be awarded a full-length nude of herself by Painter Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, R. A. Commented the official German radio: "The best people of London amused themselves by very strange contests. During [a] trial ... it came out that the idea of these contests was: who is the quickest in undressing? Especially the young ladies of London society took part in these contests. The girl who was the first...