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Mohammed's expansion is accompanied by an increasing disenchantment with the French. The palace announced last week that at long last the King had become "reconciled" to Abd el Krim, the fanatically anti-French Moroccan rebel of the 1921-26 Rif wars, who until now has preferred to live in exile in Egypt rather than to bow to a King he insisted was nothing more than a French puppet. Abd el Krim, now a withered 76, will henceforth receive a pension from the Moroccan government for his past "inestimable services...
...politician with a barometric response to popular mood, shrewd Habib Bourguiba recognized that his only hope of heading off a national swing to neutralism lay in putting himself at the head of the anti-French parade. Bourguiba ordered 400 French civilians out of the Tunisian-Algerian border area "for security reasons," demanded that France close five of her ten consulates in Tunisia, directed his U.N. delegation to request an immediate Security Council debate on the Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef bombing. In his most drastic move he also demanded immediate withdrawal of the 22,000 troops that France has been permitted...
...France by education and training, and his wife is French. When Bourguiba won his country's independence two years ago, he pledged himself and his new country to maintain "special links" with France, still looks to it for economic help. He has curbed the power of his anti-French Interior Minister, Taieb Mehri, and fired his Minister of Youth and Sports, Azouz Rebai, for using his position to inflame Tunisian youth. He has repeatedly ignored Communist overtures, and only accepted a $250,000 Soviet shipment of medical supplies, food and clothing for Algerian refugees in Tunisia (estimated at from...
Politicians of the FLN executive committee are led by 58-year-old Ferhat Abbas, "grand old man" of Algerian politics and a onetime moderate, whose failure to wring concessions from France has turned him into an embittered extremist. His close aide is Dr. Mohammed Lamine-Debaghine, 40, bitterly anti-French veteran nationalist who is subject to bouts of depression caused by attacks of neuralgia that partially paralyze his face. Both he and Abbas have served as Deputies in the French Assembly...
...Leader. The political story is that as members of the French Union, the interested tribesmen and traders of Mauritania elect one representative to the French National Assembly in Paris. Ten years ago Mauritania sent to Paris, on the Socialist ticket, an olive-skinned, white-haired Moslem politician named Horma Quid Babana. In last year's general election Quid Babana lost his seat to a hated rival, whose election he tried to invalidate. Failing to secure a patronage job as district tax collector in France, he became violently anti-French and joined the "Cairo" movement. Recently Ould Babana turned...