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After years of tension and months of negotiations with Tunisia's determined Nationalists, the French government of Premier Edgar Faure last week made good the promise given to one of its restless protectorates a year ago by his predecessor, Pierre Mendès-France. At the end of three days' debating-joined in for the first time since he left office by Assemblyman Mendès-France himself-France's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved the government proposal to grant Tunisia internal self-government in gradual stages over the next 20 years. Even the Communists did an unexpected...
...Except for Lebanon (which twelve years ago was a French mandate), "colonized" Tunisia has a higher density of paved roads and highways than any Arab country in the Middle East, more telephones per inhabitant, probably more hospital beds...
...second French argument is that any oversimplified solution, any sudden and total "liberation," would not resolve the .immense problems of North Africa. The departure of the French would inevitably precipitate chaos. The French minority of North Africa-1,000,000 in Algeria, 270,000 in Tunisia, 360,000 in Morocco-have contributed a share in the economic and cultural development of the country which is disproportionate to their numbers. In general, farming methods are more modern and profits are higher on lands cultivated by French colons. Emigration of Frenchmen might precipitate the collapse of the country's resources...
...Tunisia had 1,500,000 inhabitants in 1881; it has 3,500,000 today...
...months the French government in Paris has been guilty of an immobilisme in Morocco, hoping that the new treaty with neighboring Tunisia (which gives the Arabs some hope of self-government) would in time prove a model for Morocco. Now the Lemaigre murder has shocked into silence even advocates of strong-arm repression like Marshal Juin. Action is long overdue, unless France is to see Morocco go the way of Indo-China...