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...seal on a few French decrees. The irritated French ringed his palace with soldiers to put him back in line. The Bey's gesture was enough to keep him on the throne for a while after Tunisia got its independence. But Tunisia's modern-minded new Premier, Habib Bourguiba, 54, was obviously not going to tolerate the antique dynasty for long. Gradually the Premier cut down on the royal prerogatives. Two weeks ago, Bourguiba announced in a weekly broadcast: "The hour of reckoning will come. The country cannot continue to suffer evil in high places...
...that the rebels too were ready to negotiate. The Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) has shifted its headquarters from Nasser's propaganda-saturated Cairo to the relatively French-friendly atmosphere of Tunis, and also showed a willingness to accept the standing mediation offer of Tunisia's Premier Habib Bourguiba and Morocco's moderate Sultan Mohammed V. Quick to understand the significance of the FLN move, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau dispatched young (31) Foreign Affairs Ministry Aide Jean-Yves Goëau-Brissonnière to a trade-union congress in Tunis, ostensibly...
Tunisia's supplies of anti-locust insecticide exhausted,-Premier Habib Bourguiba called on the U.S. for help. Next day the first of twelve U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars from France flew in with chemicals and spraying equipment picked up in Morocco. As the pungent odor of Hexachlorocyclohexane spread across the land, the invasion was brought partially under control, but an estimated 70% of Tunisia's $8,500,000 date crop had disappeared. For the Tunisians, the locust scourge was one more portent that nothing will be right in North Africa until the Algerian war is over...
Cooperation. To Aron's bold plea last week was added the strong Arab voice of Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba, longtime friend of France, in an interview in L'Express. Said Bourguiba: "There are words for which one is willing to die-'liberty' and 'independence.' I know that many French sincerely believe that the Algerian people want to continue living in French territory, but I know the Algerians ... In Algeria, believe me, the fellagha are supported by the vast majority of the Algerian people...
...Tunisia a 350-man French army unit, operating in a border area where Algerian rebels have sought refuge, found itself "surrounded" by Tunisian soldiers, and in the ensuing scuffle killed seven of them. In an angry speech to his people, Tunisia's normally moderate and pro-Western Premier Habib Bourguiba cried: "There must be no more French troop movements. We are not at war with France, but we are at war with the remnants of colonialism in Tunisia. We start the battle of evacuation today." At the end of his speech the crowd took up the chant "Evacuation! Evacuation...