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This week the aftermath of the African border incident, when France bombed Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef in Tunisia (TIME, Feb. 17), has the French government teetering, see FOREIGN NEWS, Explosive Olive Branch. And for an unusual closeup of Soviet Russia's ruler, who would be embarrassed by a well-informed citizenry, see FOREIGN NEWS, Host with the Most...
Felix Gaillard. By week's end the two "good officers" had brought France and Tunisia closer to an agreement than at any time since the bombing of Sakiet. Despite his loud public defiance of Tunisian demands, Gaillard had agreed in private to withdraw all French forces in Tunisia to the naval base of Bizerte, even to discuss the future status of Bizerte itself. The chief remaining sticking point was Tunisian insistence that any settlement must be accompanied by a general discussion of the Algerian war. The French, still clinging to the notion that Algeria is a purely domestic problem...
Gaillard envisages the establishment of a Mediterranean alliance composed of Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Spain, Italy, Britain and France. It would also include Algeria-as a part of France. Militarily, the proposed pact would be designed to defend North Africa against both Communism and Nasserism. Economically, it would offer its members the right to participate in development of the oil and mineral resources of the Sahara...
...like other plausible-sounding French proposals. Gaillard's pact met many problems but not the crucial one, the status of Algeria. Tunisia and Morocco need help to keep their unbalanced economies viable, and in the past have shown willingness to accept that aid from France. But because of their citizens' sympathy for the Algerian rebels, Tunisia and Morocco have been moving away from, not toward, France. It was hard to see how that trend could be reversed by the offer of a pact which would, in effect, force both governments to ratify permanent French control of Algeria. Speaking...
...been especially wary of them since his unhappy interview last month with Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop, who quoted him as saying that France's bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef in Tunisia was a "sad error" (TIME...