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Mussolini interrupts several times to suggest that he ask for Tunisia and Corsica but Hitler suggests that he be content for the moment with demanding "Djibouti and some advantages in the Suez Canal...
During 1938 Dictator Mussolini was only a decidedly junior partner in the firm of Hitler & Mussolini, Inc. His noisy agitation to get Corsica and Tunis from France was rated as a weak bluff whose immediate objectives were no more than cheaper tolls for Italian ships in the Suez Canal and control of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad...
...time L'lle Bourbon reached the Suez Canal, the women's arguments were as unbearably hot as the weather. Their bickering drove the senior radio operator and ship's doctor ashore at Djibouti. De Boers took aboard a doctor whom he found in French Somaliland. At Madagascar most of the white crew mutinied, and blacks were signed on in their places. Then the fractious expedition set off for frigid St. Paul...
When Twentieth Century-Fox set out to make a $2,000,000 picture about Ferdinand de Lesseps last spring, Producer Darryl Zanuck entrusted the leading role to 23-year-old Tyrone Power, who barely looks his age. Instead of portraying him as a domestic hero, Suez not only failed to give Ferdinand de Lesseps any children but even failed to indicate that he ever married...
Surviving descendants of Ferdinand de Lesseps are naturally numerous. When one of them saw Suez in London last fortnight he called a family meeting in Paris to decide whether to sue Twentieth Century-Fox. Remembering that Princess Irina Youssoupov had received some $900,000 damages from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for having libeled her in Rasputin and the Empress, Twentieth Century-Fox officials hastily offered to show the picture to all the de Lesseps before it was publicly released in France...