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...Italians have the makings of a just 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...
...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...
...labor union. The hot car forced the employers' issue: their demand that the union should give them a master contract covering all warehouses until 1940. To I. L. W. U. the master contract looked like a device to write off concessions previously won from individual employers and strait-jacket the union...
...Norseman may have stayed in Greenland for a few weeks or several years. Eventually he embarked again, sailed westward through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay, whose waters his party found teeming with cod and salmon, the shores abounding with caribou, musk ox, ducks, geese, loons. From the southern shore of Hudson Bay, they journeyed inland through a chain of lakes and rivers, finally started overland on an Indian portage which leads to Lake Superior. In Ontario, some two miles from a place now named Beardmore, the Norseman died or was killed by Indians. He was buried there with his sword...
...jerker, gravedigger and onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk by opening a saloon, vents her disgust on a pious daughter-in-law by spoiling her grandson Tjerk. Best part of the story pictures Tjerk's rebellious boyhood, his adventures with his grandmother, the hell-raising activities of his brothers, family quarrels, a ceaseless round...