Word: tunisian
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...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...
...feature: a Ministry for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, as support of Mendès' promise to ease the explosive North African problem, giving more independence to the natives of French North Africa...
...North Africa: first, "the rights and interests of France and Frenchmen," then "to lead the Tunisian and Moroccan peoples to the point where they can manage their own affairs...
...member of the Radical Socialist Par ty, which is in fact conservative, Mendès-France has advocated ending the war in Indo-China by negotiation. As a lawyer, he has defended the Tunisian nationalists and has attacked French misrule in North Africa. He has been openly distrustful of Germany. He has advocated limited disarmament to halt France's slide into bank ruptcy. Are such views practical politics? In a brilliant speech, Mendès-France almost proved they were...
...Arabs and 120,000 Frenchmen in Morocco's teeming, gaudy boomtown Casablanca, some 1,000 miles from the scene of the murder, had even heard of the victim, Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached (TIME, Dec. 15). Yet Casablanca's Nationalist daily El Alam that day urged all Moroccan workers to mourn his death in a general strike. At a strike meeting in the headquarters of the General Union of Moroccan Syndicates, Abdesslem Jibli, knife-faced, hot-eyed Arab leader, fanned the flame of hatred for France before a crowd of some 1,700 turbaned Arabs and serge-suited...