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Updated: May 26, 2025
Not many months after that meeting with him at Leeds I found myself sharply separated from him in a political controversy of which I shall soon have to speak. I found refreshment after the fatigues connected with the Leeds gatherings in an excursion to Tunis. Their professed purpose was to punish a certain tribe of "Kroumirs," who, it was alleged, had committed outrages in Algeria.
She has already agreed with Germany to recognize her special claim for permission to "police" the Morocco-Algerian frontier, and those who recall the appropriation of Tunisia will remember that it originated in "policing" the Khomaïr known to the French as "Kroumirs" on the Tunisian frontier of Algeria.
The Kroumirs, as it turned out, were a product of the imagination of M. Roustan, the diplomatic agent of France in Tunis. The truth, as the world now knows, was that France was resolved to have some compensation for our ill-starred acquisition of Cyprus.
Hilaire disclaimed all idea of annexation, and asserted that the sole aim of France was the chastisement of a troublesome border tribe, the Kroumirs; but on the entry of the "red breeches" into Kairwan and the collapse of the Moslem resistance, the official assurance proved to be as unsubstantial as the inroads of the Kroumirs.
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