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...anger over the Sakiet bombing had no logical link except that of history. But Mohammed made clear their linkage in his own mind by juxtaposing the two subjects in an interview this week with French newsmen. Morocco, he told them, "cannot maintain its present policy of restraint if the Algerian problem does not receive a solution which gives satisfaction to the national aspirations of the Algerian people and recognizes their liberty and sovereignty." In a defiant gesture of solidarity with Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba in his quarrel with France, the King endorsed Bourguiba's long-standing dream...
...Premier Felix Gaillard, apparently unfazed by the disaffection of one of France's few remaining supporters in North Africa, promptly made matters worse. Racked by lumbago, Gaillard painfully hauled himself to the National Assembly, won his tenth vote of confidence (286 to 147) by promising to pursue the Algerian war with relentless vigor and to dispatch 28,000 more French troops to join the 500,000 already fighting the Algerian rebels. While he politicked, Gaillard left U.S. Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy and Britain's Harold Beeley cooling their heels, thus deliberately stalling their "good offices" mission to settle...
...excuse to Murphy and Beeley was the familiar one that in the present delicate state of French politics any conciliatory gesture he might make toward Tunisia would bring his government down. But in the present delicate state of Arab politics French failure to come to a settlement with the Algerian rebels was rapidly obliterating France's last hope of retaining any influence in North Africa...
...after flying on to Tunis, the tall, imperturbable U.S. troubleshooter scarcely had time to recover from a bout of airsickness before President Bourguiba was trying to persuade him that "it is up to U.S. leadership to convince France that the Algerian war is not profitable." Within 30 minutes of Murphy's departure from Bourguiba's Carthage residence, three leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front arrived to dine...
...week's end, with Bourguiba firing off denunciations of the French plan to displace 70,000 people to create an uninhabited "no man's land" along the Algerian-Tunisian frontier ("an insult to humanity"), the deadlock seemed publicly as total as ever. But from backstage came reports that Bourguiba showed some signs of willingness to meet the French part way, let them retain the all-important Bizerte base provided that they evacuated all their other Tunisian bases...