Word: bourguibaism
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...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...
...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...
...reference to your remarks on President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia [July 28] "that the West would never look at him with the same confidence again": I feel I ought to put the record straight that if France refuses to quit Bizerte and the U.S. is content enough to only issue statements of regret, then not only Mr. Bourguiba and the Tunisian people but the Afro-Asian countries as a whole will lose confidence in the West...
...seclusion, Charles de Gaulle seemed unwilling to believe, or indifferent to the fact, that much of the world was distressed by his recent actions. Had France reacted too savagely in relation to the provocation in slaughtering more than 800 Tunisians at Bizerte? De Gaulle is reported to have remarked: "Bourguiba decided to act like a clown. He was rapped over the knuckles for it. So much the worse for him." The failure of the U.N. Security Council to condemn France, after De Gaulle's scornful disregard of it, only convinces De Gaulle that the U.S., for all its misgivings...
Last week Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba accepted his first Communist aid, $27.7 million in ruble credits. He did so while muttering imprecations against the two nations that he had trusted, France and the U.S. To the De Gaulle government, this was less an occasion for regret than proof of Bourguiba's weakness. And when Bourguiba announced that if France would agree to negotiate its eventual withdrawal from Bizerte, he would not press for a U.N. debate, the confident French took their time about replying. An official source said casually that in view of present East-West tension...