Word: bourguibaism
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...helicopter to the Tunis suburb of La Marsa, just north of the old Punic ruins of Carthage. There, on a small asphalt lot, 500 yards from the presidential summer and guest palace Dar es Saada ("House of Happiness"), Ike shook hands with Tunisia's stubby, vigorous President Habib Bourguiba. In his warm words of welcome, Bourguiba put in a plug for anticolonialism. "This visit," said he, "will bring high hope and promise to the peoples of Africa fighting a decisive battle for human dignity: a battle both to liquidate the last outposts of a stubborn colonialism, and to rescue...
...Added meetings with Tunisia's President Bourguiba, the West's warmest friend in North Africa, and Spain's Generalissimo Franco to his tightly scheduled, 20,000-mile grand tour (TIME, Nov. 16); the President will invite Bourguiba aboard the cruiser Des Moines for an afternoon's conversation in the Bay of Tunis, will visit Franco on an overnight stop in Madrid while flying home from Paris...
...another villa, a few hundred yards away, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, the rebels' host and longtime ally, declared: "One must have faith. I believe De Gaulle has gone as far as he can go ... The F.L.N. would be displaying courage if it accepted his offer...
...Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, who led his country to independence within the French Community, would be the ideal mediator, but can be little more than a tool of the F.L.N., because the armed Algerians in F.L.N. camps in Tunisia happen to outnumber the entire Tunisian army. Conversely, the French Army, though it is good for little else, is admirably equipped for the intimidation and control of metropolitan France...
...last, De Gaulle and Ferhat Abbas agree to a free choice by the Algerian people . . . If I had been in the Algerians' shoes, I would already have wired De Gaulle, 'Arriving Orly Airport at such and such a time. Please send someone to meet me.' " Hopefully, Bourguiba offered his services as referee: "I am ready to do anything for peace . . . act as a postman, anything. If it would help matters, I am ready to meet De Gaulle...