Word: bourguibaism
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...sometimes almost grinding to a halt. In the climactic stages. Premier Faure himself headed up the French negotiators. The nominal head of the Tunisian delegation was portly Premier Tahar Ben Amar, a wealthy pro-French landlord. But the real Tunisian string-puller, behind the scenes, was handsome, saturnine Habib Bourguiba, exiled leader of Tuisia's nationalist Neo-Destour Party and an authentic political genius...
...terms of his lenient exile, Bourguiba was allowed to live in France, but was supposed to stay out of Paris. Actually, in recent weeks, Bourguiba has spent much time in Paris, and the French government has winked at it. At the Hotel Continental, where Bourguiba stayed, the help referred to him in whispers as le grand fellagha. His moderate counsels have unified his people. Through all the years of French bad faith and broken promises, he held Tunisian nationalists together, so that the French were unable to divide them (as in Morocco) or the Communists seriously to infiltrate them...
...best possible chance of success, Mendès restored to legal status the Neo-Destour Party of nationalists, outlawed since 1938. Several hundred Tunisians, held in isolation or in jail, were amnestied (though not any accused of murder). Travel controls were eased. These improvements followed the suggestions of Habib Bourguiba, exiled Neo-Destour leader, who is now sojourning at a villa not far from Paris and giving friendly advice to the Mendès-France government...
...over. He offered cabinet posts to the leaders of Neo-Destour, Tunisia's clandestine but powerful nationalist party. Most of the leaders are in exile or cooped up in French jails, but six hurried to Switzerland to confer. They talked by phone with their exiled leader, Habib Bourguiba, 51, now a "guest" of the French in a villa near Paris. Bourguiba counseled "accept...
Counterthreat. Mendès got Bourguiba's endorsement of his plan. Then, in a bitter five-hour fight, Mendès pushed his Tunisia plan through to cabinet approval. Two Gaullist members-Defense Minister Pierre Koenig and Minister for Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs Christian Fouchet -feared a "sellout" and threatened to resign. "If you resign," snapped Mendès, "I resign." That counterthreat brought the dissidents into line...