Word: habib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates had but one choice for Tunisia's first Premier as an independent nation. It was Habib Bourguiba, the hawk-nosed, voluble lawyer who led his country to sovereignty through 26 years of agitation, exile and imprisonment...
...Tunis cheering Moslems by the thousands turned out in the streets to welcome Nationalist Leader Habib Bourguiba back from Paris. In his pocket, the triumphant Neo-Destour party leader carried a protocol, in which the French government officially recognized his nation's independence. But even this triumph was not enough. "It is inconceivable," said Bourguiba, "that Tunisia on one side and Morocco on the other should enjoy independence while Algeria, which lies between them, remains under the colonialist yoke...
Tunisia is represented in Cairo by Salah ben Youssef, exiled leader of the extremist wing of the Neo-Destour, who hates his fellow Party Leader Habib Bourguiba for accepting "interdependence" with France. Last week France granted Tunisia independence, and next week Tunisia will hold its first election. But in Tunisia's south ern mountains Salah ben Youssef's supporters flared into revived rebellion...
Meanwhile, crowds of Tunisians cheered the moderate nationalist leader, Habib Bourgiba, on his return from Paris with a French pledge of autonomy in which some ties between France and Tunisia will be retained. They gave Bourgiba ovations at the airport and at the palace of the Bey of Tunis, to whom he reported...
...Given Word." In Tunisia, the returned hero was Habib Bourguiba, no Sultan but a French-educated lawyer and the father of Tunisian nationalism...