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...that time, General de Latour ruled Tunisia with a firm, fair hand, disassociating himself with Mendes when talking to the French, yet managing to stay popular with the Tunisians and make their home rule work. At the news of his appointment to Morocco last week, Tunisian Premier Tahar Ben Amar said of him: "We wish him in Morocco the same success he achieved in Tunisia...
...rampage in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains that straddle central Morocco. Shouting horsemen, brandishing antique guns, swept into Khouribga, where the French own phosphate mines, joined up with the Arab miners and hacked 203 people to death. Near by, Moroccan iron workers in the town of Ait Amar dragged their bosses into the streets and tortured them horribly. One French engineer was tied down and forced to watch while his wife was raped repeatedly, and his six-month-old child was slowly carved to death. The killers burned every house and destroyed every living thing they could find...
...fall of one French government and the emergence of another, French-Tunisian negotiations have ground on in Paris, sometimes almost grinding to a halt. In the climactic stages. Premier Faure himself headed up the French negotiators. The nominal head of the Tunisian delegation was portly Premier Tahar Ben Amar, a wealthy pro-French landlord. But the real Tunisian string-puller, behind the scenes, was handsome, saturnine Habib Bourguiba, exiled leader of Tuisia's nationalist Neo-Destour Party and an authentic political genius...
...minor ones: the French insisted on equal French representation in the municipal governments of five towns, and that the Tunisians were unwilling to grant; and the French wanted military control of the Libyan frontier (to prevent Arab infiltrators coming in from the east), and that Premier Ben Amar was unwilling to yield. Faure was about to give in, when an irate lobby representing French planters (the colons) and civil servants in Tunisia brought their powerful pressure to bear...
...After being closeted two hours with Faure, Bourguiba came out smiling broadly, and issued an optimistic statement. Much heartened, the Premiers of France and Tunisia got to work again, and at 1:25 a.m. gave out the joyful word: they had reached agreement. Almost choked with emotion, Premier Ben Amar said: "This is our wedding day." Said Premier Faure: "We must wipe the slate clean of past grievances and consider the future." As a reward for Bourguiba, all restrictions on his movements were taken off: he was free to return to Tunisia...