Word: tunisians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...news to a crowd. One by one, he haled 17 cleanshaven, tough-looking young men up beside him, and as each appeared the crowd yelled louder and hand-clapped rhythmically. The 17 young men wore faded U.S. Army Eisenhower jackets, adorned with the red, white and red patch of Tunisian independence fighters...
Last week Pierre Mendes-France's government decided on one more attempt to settle Tunisia's growing unrest by peaceful means. Tunisian Premier Tahar ben Amar was summoned to a delicate conference in Paris. Ben Amar could not give much ground, or he would be scorned and disowned by hotheaded compatriots. Mendes' Minister for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, a Gaullist named Christian Fouchet, was under heavy pressure by his fellow Gaullists to show an iron hand in North Africa. Thus, with neither man left much room for maneuvering, Fouchet and Ben Amar dickered for days, trying...
Finally they reached agreement, with Tahar ben Amar making most of the concessions, and calling for a bottle of aspirin. The formula grants amnesty for the fellaghas, provided they lay down their arms. The Tunisian protectorate was divided into 21 "operational areas." To each of these, Tunisian government delegates, accompanied by French officers, are being dispatched this week. By posters, leaflets dropped from airplanes, public announcements in mosques, the offer will be proclaimed. Those fellaghas who turn in their arms within six days will be allowed to go their way without punishment or harassment of any kind. If the amnesty...