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...competence. He decided to fly back to Paris at once. The FLN leaders also wanted broader consultations, particularly with Leader Mohammed ben Bella, who is in Paris' Sante prison (see below). They took their problem to Premier Bourguiba, who suggested that he send Ben Bella's Tunisian friend and lawyer, Abdel Majid Chaker, to Paris to ask the jailed FLN leader: "What do you think of eventual negotiations with France?" Chaker would bring back an oral response, and the FLN could take it from there...
...solution under which Algeria would win political independence but France would keep some form of economic "interdependence." He urged the Senate to pass a double-barreled resolution calling upon the Administration to try to bring about an independence-with-interdependence settlement through NATO or the "good offices" of Tunisian and Moroccan leaders, and, if there is no substantial progress toward the goal by the time the U.N. General Assembly meets next September, to support "an international effort" toward the goal of Algerian independence...
Cooperation. To Aron's bold plea last week was added the strong Arab voice of Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba, longtime friend of France, in an interview in L'Express. Said Bourguiba: "There are words for which one is willing to die-'liberty' and 'independence.' I know that many French sincerely believe that the Algerian people want to continue living in French territory, but I know the Algerians ... In Algeria, believe me, the fellagha are supported by the vast majority of the Algerian people...
Tunisia: Worse. In Tunisia a 350-man French army unit, operating in a border area where Algerian rebels have sought refuge, found itself "surrounded" by Tunisian soldiers, and in the ensuing scuffle killed seven of them. In an angry speech to his people, Tunisia's normally moderate and pro-Western Premier Habib Bourguiba cried: "There must be no more French troop movements. We are not at war with France, but we are at war with the remnants of colonialism in Tunisia. We start the battle of evacuation today." At the end of his speech the crowd took...
...uninterrupted work daily, no long lunch hours, Friday instead of Sunday holidays. Even Premier Bourguiba could not resist saying, "When I see a French gendarme, I choke with anger." He fired all 2,500 French cops and customs officials and several thousand minor French bureaucrats, replacing them with Tunisians. As a result, 50,000 Frenchmen (approximately 30%) have left Tunisia for France. Several weeks ago, faced with a shortage of skilled Arabs to run his administration, Bourguiba offered the 3,500 top French officials and technicians pay and privileges far above that of their Tunisian counterparts. Less than one-third...