Word: tunisia
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...show of soberer responsibility, Algerian nationalists let it be known that Tunisia would speak for them officially in the forthcoming debate at the U.N. Tunisia, said Chief U.N. Delegate Bahi Ladgham, feels that the Algerian Front of National Liberation (FLN) has the support of the majority of Algerians. "We have kept in touch," he said, "and of course we are neighbors." What were the chances of success? Said Mr. Ladgham: "Each side must give...
...French soldiers, roughly 36,000 Algerian terrorists, and 200,000 civilians. It is responsible, directly or indirectly for the fall of three French governments--Mendes-France in 1955, Mollet and Bourges-Manoury in 1957. Its problems have become the source of bad relations between the French and Morocco and Tunisia and between the French and the United States...
...loyal as he is to the West, complained Tunisia's peppery President Habib Bourguiba, is "beginning to verge on downright sentimentality." He was angered by French troops invading Tunisia in hot pursuit of Algerian rebels (some of whom, say the French, make hit-and-run raids into Algeria from Tunisia). Independent Tunisia, snapped Bourguiba, must have guns, "no matter what the price...
...Nasser, even though Bourguiba himself has long resented Nasser's internal intriguing in French North Africa on behalf of Cairo-centered Arab nationalism. Within three days of taking Nasser's arms, President Bourguiba was able to inform his people that the U.S. had decided to help Tunisia get arms. They would be "Western arms, whether from Italy or elsewhere," he said, and they would arrive by October...
Repudiating any thought of "bargaining" over Tunisia's loyalty to the West, Bourguiba said in his weekly radio broadcast: "The best proof that we did not want to depart from our position of wisdom is that even when our arms crisis was most acute, we negotiated with a Czech economic mission and did not even raise the question of arms." As for the "small quantity" of Egyptian arms, Bourguiba blandly said: "We accepted them as a fraternal gesture. The Egyptian offer helped us by its timeliness, but we know that Egypt herself is seeking arms for her own needs...