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...assistant chief of staff for Air Intelligence when the U.S. entered World War II, became one of the Air Corps's youngest brigadier generals at 36. Because he looked even younger than he was, he had to learn to endure gibes about his age: once while in Tunisia, in mufti, he was ordered by a chicken colonel to hustle up a drink, complied gracefully...
Last week the 97 elected delegates to Tunisia's first constituent assembly met in Tunis, less than nine miles from the ruins of once proud Carthage, which boldly challenged ancient Rome for world supremacy. Now, in long subjected Tunisia, a new nation was being born. Opening the inaugural sessions, the spade-bearded, well-tailored old Bey of Tunis gracefully bowed to the new spirit of democracy, dispensed with the traditional custom which once decreed that every Tunisian present should kiss his hand in token of submission...
...delegates had but one choice for Tunisia's first Premier as an independent nation. It was Habib Bourguiba, the hawk-nosed, voluble lawyer who led his country to sovereignty through 26 years of agitation, exile and imprisonment...
...malevolence of Radio Egypt is shocking. The French have radio transmitters all over Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco; why are Britain and France sitting around like simple ninnies sucking their thumbs? I am no expert, but I have had some slight contact with these matters; it does not require a decision in Parliament to overpower a malicious radio transmitter...
...months ago the West felt welcome and secure in Libya, that huge 680,000-square-mile expanse of African desert between Tunisia and Egypt. Frail old King Idris was a firm friend of the West. So was young (35), balding Prime Minister Mustafa ben Halim. In exchange for a $10.5 million annual subsidy, Libya allowed the British to maintain a major air base near Tobruk, and when Premier Nasser forced the British out of the Suez Canal, the British also moved in an armored division. So far, the U.S. has contributed $12 million in Point Four aid and for maintenance...