Word: tunisia
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...clock one morning last week, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France drove through deserted Parisian streets to Le Bourget Airport. He was bound for another trouble spot-Tunis, the capital of strife-torn Tunisia. Having made a "cruel" peace in Indo-China because French colonialism had missed its opportunity there, he was determined that France should not make the same mistake in North Africa...
...Moslem chant of joy. When Mendès stepped down before the palace of the 72-year-old Bey, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, the Bey caused sugared almonds to be cast under the Frenchman's feet. Mendès read out his plan to give Tunisia the internal freedom and autonomy that its nationalists have long and ardently coveted, while safeguarding the rights of the French colons (settlers) and France's economic and strategic interests...
...worked with an eye on the clock (he had one placed on the table before him at Cabinet meetings). His plan for economic reform was still to be submitted. The two Cabinet members assigned to find a compromise on EDC had already reached a stalemate. And in Tunisia and Morocco, fresh trouble welled...
...role of political Cassandra, Mendèes had long warned of the need for greater concessions to North Africa's nationalists, and as Premier, had created France's first ministry for Tunisian and Moroccan affairs. But it was already dangerously late. In Tunisia, terrorists shot a municipal councilor, bombed a police chief's home, and machine-gunned a bus and a cafeé, killing eight people. Mendèes sent 1,600 French paratroopers to Tunis...
...also warned that if France did not give its colonial people more independence and quickly, they would take it themselves. The Indo-China war could have been avoided by granting Indo-China greater independence, he charged, and the same lesson is going unheeded in Tunisia and Morocco: "The 19th century colonial regime...