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...French ship poked its bow into the Gulf of Tunis, a small, dark-eyed man in red tarboosh and grey business suit stared at the distant mountains and sobbed nervously. Habib Bourguiba, frail, 51-year-old leader of Tunisia's Neo-Destour and father of Tunisian nationalism, was returning in triumph to his country. It was the peak of a lifetime of struggle, over ten years of it spent in exile or French prisons...
Into Tunis stormed aroused colons (overseas Frenchmen) from neighboring Morocco and Algeria. They came to join their Tunisian counterparts in angry protest against Premier Edgar Faure's agreement with Habib Bourguiba, leader of Tunisia's moderate Arab nationalists, which would grant Tunisians substantial control over their country. "There can be no French grandeur without French North Africa!" the colons proclaimed...
...Paris, sometimes almost grinding to a halt. In the climactic stages. Premier Faure himself headed up the French negotiators. The nominal head of the Tunisian delegation was portly Premier Tahar Ben Amar, a wealthy pro-French landlord. But the real Tunisian string-puller, behind the scenes, was handsome, saturnine Habib Bourguiba, exiled leader of Tuisia's nationalist Neo-Destour Party and an authentic political genius...
...Rescue. But at this critical moment Edgar Faure had a trump card to play: Habib Bourguiba. That afternoon, obviously at Faure's invitation, the swart Neo-Destour leader stalked into the Hotel Matignon, the Premier's residence. After being closeted two hours with Faure, Bourguiba came out smiling broadly, and issued an optimistic statement. Much heartened, the Premiers of France and Tunisia got to work again, and at 1:25 a.m. gave out the joyful word: they had reached agreement. Almost choked with emotion, Premier Ben Amar said: "This is our wedding day." Said Premier Faure: "We must...
...best possible chance of success, Mendès restored to legal status the Neo-Destour Party of nationalists, outlawed since 1938. Several hundred Tunisians, held in isolation or in jail, were amnestied (though not any accused of murder). Travel controls were eased. These improvements followed the suggestions of Habib Bourguiba, exiled Neo-Destour leader, who is now sojourning at a villa not far from Paris and giving friendly advice to the Mendès-France government...