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...hours later Mendès rode through the heavily guarded streets of Tunis. In the vast crowd under the broiling sun women shouted, "Yo, yo, yo!"-the old Moslem chant of joy. When Mendès stepped down before the palace of the 72-year-old Bey, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, the Bey caused sugared almonds to be cast under the Frenchman's feet. Mendès read out his plan to give Tunisia the internal freedom and autonomy that its nationalists have long and ardently coveted, while safeguarding the rights of the French colons (settlers) and France...
...provisions of Mend¶s' plan...
...Mendès warned that this was the best he could offer, and that the nationalists had better accept it. He sternly spelled out the alternative to his generous offer: "Should it become necessary to resort to Draconia* measures to maintain public order, the government would regretfully undertake them." Last week 3,500 Tunisia-bound French troops embarked at Marseille, and this week 2,500 more are scheduled to follow...
Having delivered his plan and his warning, Mendès flew back to Paris...
Conversations à deux. Pierre Mendès-France was a man traveling on momentum. He had no natural following in the Assembly, and had to exploit swiftly the prestige he won at Geneva. But even if he had not promised prompt action on Tunisia, some action would have been required by the situation. In the past month Tunisian terrorists have made 130 attacks on colons and pro-French compatriots, killing 93 victims, wounding...