The "little crisis" which agitated the western end of the Mediterranean last month, when Italians "spontaneously" demanded Tunisia and Corsica from France, popped up again last week in the southern end of the Red Sea.
With Premier Edouard Daladier about to make a swing around France's North African possessions to promote "empire solidarity," France's East African colonists in French Somaliland were suddenly thrown into a panic by reports that 80,000 Italian troops were about to march over the border from Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia) and seize the country....
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