Word: gaillard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, where Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba has long been charged with giving aid and comfort to the Algerian rebels, Allard's report offered Premier Félix Gaillard an excellent opportunity to play upon France's touchy national pride -the kind of opportunity he invariably seizes when he finds himself in domestic political difficulties. Last week, little more than 24 hours after the attack, French Ambassador to Tunisia Georges Gorse appeared at the Tunisian Foreign Ministry with a stiff note of protest demanding the return of the four captured Frenchmen...
...this rebuff, Félix Gaillard promptly suspended discussion of the military and economic aid pact that France has been negotiating with Tunisia. Simultaneously, he dispatched a pair of personal aides-one of them Army General Georges Buch-alet-to Tunis with a private message for Bourguiba. Bourguiba took the general's presence as an implied threat, coldly refused to receive him. After a two-day impasse the two French envoys, their message undelivered, flew back to Paris. "An affront to France," cried Paris newspapers...
...keep Tunisia on good terms with France, a month ago even suggested a formal alliance between the two countries. His tiny army is no match for the hard-bitten Algerian forces that have infiltrated Tunisia, and the sympathies of the Tunisian peoples are with the Algerian rebels. If Gaillard brought too much pressure to bear on Tunisia, there was a real danger that Bourguiba might be replaced by someone fanatically hostile not only to France but to the entire West...
PARIS, Jan. 14--An angry war veterans' lobby today plunged Premier Felix Gaillard's young government into a crisis within hours after a new session of Parliament convened. A vote of confidence will be taken in the National Assembly Thursday...
Back to Secrecy. Macmillan was responding not just to domestic pressure but to a mood that had swept a large part of the free world. French Premier Félix Gaillard endorsed the idea. India's Nehru and Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza quickly echoed him. Norway's Premier