“WE WANT CORSICA”
ANTI-FRENCH DEMONSTRATION IN ROME “SPONTANEOUS, POPULAR REACTION” • Received 7th December. 9 a.m.) ROME, 6th December. Despite a treble police cordon 600 Blackshirts demonstrated under the windows of the French Embassy this morning shouting: “We want Corsica and Tunis.” It is officially stated that the demonstration was “a spontaneous, popular raeacti i.” Black Shirts demonstrated at the French Travel Agency, which was obliged to close its iron shutters. German circles deny that Herr von Mackensen, German Ambassador, called on Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister.
The Press alleges that fifty Italians were wounded during the French demonstrations in Tunisia. French n.c.o’s entered the Italian Club and smashed Mussolini’s portrait.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 7 December 1938, Page 8
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