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Ominous Whispers. It was a measure of the psychotic state of French politics that where Bourguiba's tough talk had provoked Frenchmen to fury, his proffered olive branch very nearly toppled the government of Premier Felix Gaillard. Trouble was that along with the olive branch came news that Bourguiba would still not agree to France's scheme for "neutral control'' of the border between Tunisia and revolt-torn Algeria, still insisted that France publicly concede that "in principle" Tunisia has sovereignty over Bizerte. Stirred to their chauvinistic depths. France's right-wing Independents, a vital...
...helmeted gendarmes flown into Paris from Algeria, Germany and the provinces. To a stonily unresponsive Assembly, Premier Gaillard declared: "It is said that the republican regime has been shaken to its foundation. This is not true. The Republic is much more firmly rooted in the hearts of Frenchmen than many pretend to believe. The only danger which threatens the Republic is the disunity of the republicans themselves and particularly of the republican majority of this Assembly which should permit the government to face up to the realities confronting...
...back the Syrians and Lebanese by all means short of outright force. And during the Casablanca Conference Roosevelt insisted on dining with Morocco's Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef, then subject to France, pointedly told the Sultan: "A sovereign government should retain considerable control over its own resources." Most Frenchmen date the Sultan's stubborn drive toward ultimate independence from that...
...Frenchmen still live there, 29,000 still serve in the Moroccan bureaucracy. King Mohammed has let France keep 20 bases and 35,000 troops in Morocco. This devotion to the French dream of "interdependence" between Morocco and France has exposed the King to incessant and increasing protests from Morocco's vociferous ultranationalists, who abhor all dealings with their country's former imperial masters. In reply, King Mohammed has counseled patience, negotiations and trust...
There, in words Frenchmen hardly expect to hear these days, M'bida, the African, complained that Ramadier. the Frenchman, was trying to propel the Cameroons toward independence too rapidly. And with one of those sideswipes for which he had become notorious. M'bida declared: "I regret that in disavowing me, Mr. Ramadier furnished support-which I would like to believe was involuntary-to the agents of the Soviet Union...