Word: tunisian
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...nearly eight months, through the fall of one French government and the emergence of another, French-Tunisian negotiations have ground on in Paris, sometimes almost grinding to a halt. In the climactic stages. Premier Faure himself headed up the French negotiators. The nominal head of the Tunisian delegation was portly Premier Tahar Ben Amar, a wealthy pro-French landlord. But the real Tunisian string-puller, behind the scenes, was handsome, saturnine Habib Bourguiba, exiled leader of Tuisia's nationalist Neo-Destour Party and an authentic political genius...
...time in Paris, and the French government has winked at it. At the Hotel Continental, where Bourguiba stayed, the help referred to him in whispers as le grand fellagha. His moderate counsels have unified his people. Through all the years of French bad faith and broken promises, he held Tunisian nationalists together, so that the French were unable to divide them (as in Morocco) or the Communists seriously to infiltrate them...
...France will continue to handle Tunisian defense and foreign affairs...
...their hesitant support, the M.R.P. got four choice Cabinet posts, including Robert Schuman as Minister of Justice and Pierre Pflimlin, a political comer, as Minister of Finance. Faure pledged his government to carry through Mendès' proposed home rule for Tunisia, but appointed as Minister for Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs a dissident Gaullist who strongly opposes it. All of these appointments indicated an attempt to strike an "exact middle," which might in practice turn out to be a dead center...
...breakdown of French negotiations with the Tunisian nationalists. This is the deepest of all Mendès' disappointments, because he had looked on Tunisia as a beginning, whereas all the other hard decisions taken were endings...