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TUNISIA. Volatile President Habib Bourguiba, 55, runs his nation like a one-man show, dismissing opponents, lecturing visitors, and ruling by decree. But he is not the complete master of Tunisia's fate, or of his own. His professions of loyalty to the West have earned him the hatred of the neutralists. Nasser's Radio Cairo beams an unceasing stream of Goebbels-like propaganda into Tunisia...
...Gaullist,' and there is reason to be. A plebiscite this week would surely exceed the 80% [of the recent referendum]: at this moment, the man De Gaulle is, in himself, the nation . . . One is now Gaullist in the same way that one is French." Tunisia's President Bourguiba declared that "the words proclaimed by De Gaulle have never before been said. On the political level, they are something...
Anticipating Nasser's propagandists, Bourguiba said defiantly: "Yes, I am Western, and I will remain so." Tunisia's pro-Western policy, he said, "has enabled us to avoid many troubles." Nasser, he declared, is "not aware of the danger of Communism. Once the Iron Curtain drops, there is no escape...
Morocco, which joined the league when Tunisia did, refused to go along with Bourguiba's attack. Said one Moroccan lawyer, however: "Bourguiba is terribly awkward, but he said what most of us believe. The Egyptians take millions from the Communists and have the nerve to call us lackeys for accepting a penny from America...
Lackey was one of the mildest words Cairo had for Bourguiba. Nasser's radios warned the Tunisian President that he faces "the same destiny as Nuri as-Said," the assassinated Premier of Iraq...