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Chief proponent of the plan is Tunisia's Premier Habib Bourguiba. On his recent visit to Washington Bourguiba reportedly urged President Eisenhower to persuade France to give Algeria complete independence. In return, Arab leaders in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco would form a Maghreb federation with some kind of link with France. Spain, because of its residual interest in Spanish Morocco, would also be invited to join the grouping, and so would Libya...
...Hungary; China's 602 million were told just about nothing. In most Moslem nations, the report of the Hungarian bloodshed and the emotional response to it were dulled, even drowned, by indignation at the Franco-British-Israeli invasion of Egypt. An exception: Tunisia's Moslem Premier Habib Bourguiba, who indicted Russia for "waging pitiless war against a weak country...
...bloody war. Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco, with the unofficial blessing of Socialist Guy Mollet's government, had invited top Algerian rebel chieftains from their Cairo headquarters to Rabat to talk peace terms with him. Then they would fly to Tunis for discussions with moderate Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba. A daring plan occurred to the officers: Why not kidnap the Algerian rebels' high command in midair...
...turned out to be hawk-nosed Socialist Max Lejeune, Secretary of State for the armed forces and close friend of Algeria's tough Minister Resident Lacoste, opponent of a liberal line in Algeria. Lejeune cautiously hinted of the operation to Premier Mollet, who had promised the Sultan and Bourguiba that the rebels would enjoy immunity. Mollet snapped: "Definitely...
...Tunis an ashen-faced Sultan heard the whispered news after parading with Bourguiba to the cheers of 370,000 Tunisians. In Paris Guy Mollet gasped: "It's crazy. I don't believe it." At a midnight conference Mollet accepted the accomplished fact, and the immediate political advantage it gave him. Next morning all Parisian newspapers except the Communist L'H'umanite cheered the French kidnaping. Mollet, declining to surrender rebels "already condemned by French justice,"* won a massive 330-140 vote of confidence. Only ex-Premier Pierre Mendés-France asked whether "those who organized...