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Just five years ago swarthy, blue-eyed Habib Bourguiba was a little-known Tunisian lawyer and nationalist leader scornfully dismissed by the French Resident General of the day as "a dangerous maniac who actually thinks he might become a figure in world affairs." Today Habib Bourguiba, 54, is President of his country (pop. 3,800,000) and indubitably a world figure. Last week, having successfully obtained U.S. and British arms over French objections, the Tunisian leader flew to Rabat to work out with Morocco's King Mohammed V a new formula for mediating in France's Algerian...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov, 29--Tunisia declared today French legislative reforms cannot bring an end to strife in Algeria, and appealed anew for French acceptance of a Tunisian-Moroccan mediation offer...
...Tunisian Ambassador Mongi Slim called on France to set aside "narrow nationalism" and use the good offices of his country and Morocco in bringing about a settlement. He asserted France was "completely in error" if it felt that the three-year-old rebellion could be ended through legislative reform...
...President Bourguiba has been trying to get the French to equip his fledgling army. His 6,000 men had only 3,000 rifles and less than three rounds of ammunition per man. Successive French governments, arguing that Bourguiba was giving aid and comfort to the Algerian rebels, stalled the Tunisians off. Last September, after French forces in Algeria invoked "the right of hot pursuit" and began to follow fleeing Algerian rebels into Tunisian territory, Bourguiba publicly appealed to the U.S. for arms...
LONDON, Nov. 21--Prime Minister MacMillan announced today he will go to Paris Monday to see Premier Felix Gaillard. Plainly his mission will be to smooth ruffled British-French relations. MacMillan told the House of Commons he and Gaillard will discuss the Tunisian arms mixup and next month's summit meeting of NATO powers...