Word: bourguibaism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, the two friends met a fellow student named Habib Bourguiba, and the three spent hours talking about independence. Says Hamouda: "Slim rarely went out, but hundreds of students dropped by to see him. He was a great help to the Algerians and was always preaching unity in the North African struggle." In 1936, at the age of 28, Slim returned to Tunis, with Bourguiba founded the Neo Destour Party, dedicated to liberation from France. He fell in love with a young Tunisian girl, but suddenly broke with her. Explains a friend: "After much thought he decided...
...setting up nationalist movement units all over the country. His black Citroën (license No. 225) was featured on so many French police posters that it became famous throughout Tunisia. The French caught him in 1952, jailed him for two years, released him just in time to assist Bourguiba in the 1954 independence negotiations with French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France. He became Bourguiba's first Minister of the Interior, worked hard to prepare Tunisia for full independence. When it was granted on March 20, 1956, Bourguiba named Slim Ambassador to the U.S. and Canada...
...speeches, the delegates presented a sharp study in contrasts. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was grave, aloof, sad-eyed, a figare out of the past. Some were old antagonists: Ethiopia and Somalia have been squabbling over borders for years. Some were mint-new friends: Nasser and Tunisia's Bourguiba met at Belgrade, having patched up their bitter, four-year-old quarrel. Even in their approach to the cold war, the delegates sharply differed: U.A.R.'s Nasser and U Nu ruthlessly repress their local Communists; Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Nkrumah (fresh from a red-carpet...
...Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali's Keita, Somalia's Adben Abdullah Osman, the Sudan's Ibrahim Abboud, Tunisia's Bourguiba and the U.A.R.'s Nasser...
...Britain-abstaining. Unresolved, of course, was whether France would pay any more attention to the General Assembly than it had paid to an earlier decision by the U.N. Security Council calling on both France and Tunisia to withdraw to their original positions. Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, somewhat satisfied with paper victory, sounded a conciliatory note. "The dead of Bizerte must not be an obstacle for the future," he said. "Once our territory is entirely liberated, we will lose all our complexes." But there was no indication from Paris that French troops would soon be evacuated from Tunisia. President...