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France has played the outlaw in Tunisia, and should be treated accordingly until she makes amends, by paying reparation and by commencing the orderly abandonment of the Bizerte naval base...
...reference to your remarks on President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia [July 28] "that the West would never look at him with the same confidence again": I feel I ought to put the record straight that if France refuses to quit Bizerte and the U.S. is content enough to only issue statements of regret, then not only Mr. Bourguiba and the Tunisian people but the Afro-Asian countries as a whole will lose confidence in the West...
...lynched the first two Moslems it encountered. In Oran. Sidi-bel-Abbés and Constantine, European counterterrorists exploded plastic bombs. At the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations lined up 46 of the 50 nations needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss Tunisia's charge of French aggression at Bizerte. Boatloads of thousands of penniless French refugees, fleeing the possibility of renewed war in Tunisia, were docking at Marseille. After digesting this unpleasant assortment of news, an aide of President Charles de Gaulle last week said worriedly, "Things are not going...
Last week Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba accepted his first Communist aid, $27.7 million in ruble credits. He did so while muttering imprecations against the two nations that he had trusted, France and the U.S. To the De Gaulle government, this was less an occasion for regret than proof of Bourguiba's weakness. And when Bourguiba announced that if France would agree to negotiate its eventual withdrawal from Bizerte, he would not press for a U.N. debate, the confident French took their time about replying. An official source said casually that in view of present East-West tension...
...Cordebas asserted, too, that Algeria is developing a left-wing elite trained under fire of the battle. She predicted that an independent Algerian government will be far to the left of the government of Tunisia and Morocco...