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...overwhelmed when he was ushered into a small reception room to find De Gaulle waiting for him. De Gaulle asked him to tell his government that De Gaulle would like to see the Tunisian President in the interest of Algerian peace. Bourguiba picked as his emissary Information Minister Mohammed Masmoudi, who called on De Gaulle at the Elysée palace, told him that the F.L.N. leaders still smarted from memories of last June's talks with French representatives at Melun, where they had been virtually treated like prisoners. "Melun?" snapped De Gaulle. "There wasn't a Melun...
...Tunisia, Secretary of State for Information Mohammed Masmoudi declared: "France's economic effort is modifying the face of Algeria. Looking at such changes, one cannot adopt a negative attitude." Most encouraging of all to French military men was dramatic new evidence of dissension within the rebel F.L.N. itself. Fortnight ago, after a pitched battle with other F.L.N. forces in Tunisia, 156 disaffected rebels led by Battalion Commander Ali Hambli fought their way out to Algeria, where they surrendered to the French army...
State Over Liberty. Bourguiba exploded. He summoned a 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...
...pipeline from their Edjele oilfield in the Sahara (estimated reserves: 70 million metric tons) over its natural route through Tunisia to the Mediterranean, unless French troops were allowed to stay in southern Tunisia to protect it. De Gaulle abandoned the conditions. He told Tunisian Ambassador Mohammed Masmoudi: "We are not at all opposed to Tunisia having its share of the Sahara's resources." The French and Tunisians signed an agreement to build the pipeline across Tunisia at a cost of $95 million, which will give jobs to 2,000 Tunisians, turn the sleepy Tunisian port of Gabes into...