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...went over there and it was a bit of alet-down, just because it had been so built up,"he says. "We said dumb stuff like how we likedtheir Christmas lights...
...this rebuff, Félix Gaillard promptly suspended discussion of the military and economic aid pact that France has been negotiating with Tunisia. Simultaneously, he dispatched a pair of personal aides-one of them Army General Georges Buch-alet-to Tunis with a private message for Bourguiba. Bourguiba took the general's presence as an implied threat, coldly refused to receive him. After a two-day impasse the two French envoys, their message undelivered, flew back to Paris. "An affront to France," cried Paris newspapers...
...passions die hard. Two days after the General's plea for tolerance, mobs struck at collaborators. At Alet, in southern France, a crowd harangued by Resistance leaders broke into a jail, seized four men under death sentence, summarily shot them. At Bourges, in central France, another mob lynched a man and a woman' who had been condemned to death, then reprieved by General de Gaulle...
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