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...have an old adage which goes: "The ass that went into the salt mine turned into salt." This seems to fit Greece and Turkey very well since their faithful toeing of the American line over the Tunisian question. A. MOHIUDDIN Hyderabad, Sind, Pakistan
...colonial rule and get a greater measure of self-government (TIME, April 7). The answer to Bokhari's plea lay with the U.S., long the champion of the principle that any complaint, even if absurd, should at least get a preliminary hearing in U.N. With U.S. approval, the Tunisian complaint would go on the agenda. If the U.S. voted no or abstained, the door would be closed...
Delegate Ernest Gross gave the U.S. answer. "I have been instructed," said he with embarrassment, "to abstain." Britain and France voted against the Tunisian plea; Soviet Russia, playing to the hilt its role as the champion of the downtrodden colonials, voted...
...dark of night last week, 300 French soldiers surrounded the house of Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Chenik. According to the French version, Chenik, an irreconcilable nationalist, was dressed and waiting when the police arrived. According to Chenik's son, the Prime Minister was rudely awakened "like a common murderer," and forced to dress in front of his captors. Either way, everyone agreed on what happened next. A plane left Tunis at dawn bearing Chenik and three other nationalist ministers to detention at a kerosene-lighted oasis hotel at Kebili, in the North African desert...
...looks like a distinguished European actor impersonating an Arab, yielded to French demands. He went even further, blaming Tunisia's troubles on the nationalists, "men whose secret intentions were surely evil." Then he turned over Tunisia's Foreign Ministry to Resident De Hautecloque, agreed to withdraw Tunisian complaints from the U.N., and appointed a fat and wealthy pro-French Prime Minister, Salah Eddine Ben Mohammed Baccouche, 69, who proudly wears the cross of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. It was a surprising victory for De Hautecloque. In Tunis, which is normally noisy at night...