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Veiled women shrilled their adulation, and students bore him on their shoulders through the streets when Habib Bourguiba returned from exile to lead Tunisia to independence. They cheered again when he deposed the old Bey of Tunis and had himself proclaimed President of the new republic. But in the last year there has been a change in the smiling, accessible Bourguiba. Since he moved into the President's palace, he has become increasingly autocratic, petulant and impatient of criticism. Ambassadors were instructed to bow three times on withdrawing from his presence-a custom imposed by the Bey whom Bourguiba...
...meeting of the Neo-Destour Party executive, rammed through a vote to ban L'Action. For voting against Bourguiba's wishes, Mohammed Masmoudi, one of the paper's principal shareholders and once Bourguiba's close confidant, was fired as Tunisian Ambassador to France. (His replacement: Habib Bourguiba...
...have carried this abscess too far," declared Habib Bourguiba. "Tunisia is going through a difficult period. Freedom is dangerous." In an interview with New York Times Correspondent Thomas Brady, Bourguiba expanded: "At the moment of a revolution there is no question of setting up a democracy like that in America. If they accuse me of dictatorship, I accept. I am creating a nation. Liberty must be suppressed until the end of the war in Algeria-until the nation becomes homogeneous...
...Christian (Greek Orthodox), reads the Lord's Prayer and Creed regularly in Arabic at Sunday worship at his local church in Beirut, cons St. John Chrysostom for relaxation. His wife was formerly a teacher of literature at a Beirut women's college; they have one son, Habib...
...methodical handling of difficult situations, 67-year-old Premier Charles de Gaulle has nowhere shown himself more adept than in his dealings with Tunisia's hard-pressed Premier Habib Bourguiba. De Gaulle's predecessors, by refusing to withdraw French troops from southern Tunisia, by meekly backing the French military's unauthorized bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet, were slowly driving away the man in Arab North Africa who had shown himself most friendly and understanding toward the West, and most resistant to Nasser. French ineptness was also pushing Bourguiba into deeper alliance with Algeria...