Word: tunisians
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...Outsiders. Though both Moroccan and Tunisian delegates summoned them separately to conferences, the Algerians were invited to none of the official banquets or meetings. They waited outside the palace in a car for the final communiqué. When it was ready, Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay Hassan himself went out to hand it to them before it was distributed to the press. The communiqué announced that Bourguiba and the King, scheduled to fly to the U.S. this week to visit President Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), had agreed to put their good offices at the "disposal of France...
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...
Moderation is the basis of Bourguiba's effectiveness as an Arab spokesman. He was a nationalist leader when the strutting colonels of Egypt and Syria were adolescents, and he has built up a mass political following organized down to the cell level in 700 Tunisian cities and villages. Trained as a law student on Paris' Left Bank and married to a French wife, he was imprisoned again and again by colonial authorities, still kept up his wide contacts with more progressive French politicians in Paris. "I hate colonialism," he said, "not the French...
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...