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Word: salah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better than in Indo-China, but the future of North Africa-France's overseas granary-worries the French as much or more. In Tunisia the nationalist Destour Party threatened a one-day general strike this week in "mourning" for the 66-year-old tie with France. Destour Leader Salah Ben Youssef wants total independence, a Tunisia tied to the Arab League, and full membership in U.N. Sorbonne-trained, and often in French prisons for nationalist activity, Ben Youssef says: "In prison you have got nothing to do but think, and that is why we out-think the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mission in Doubt | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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