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...anticolonialism" that last week the acrimonious argument took place on schedule in the U.N. General Assembly. Up for heated discussion was the Afro-Asian draft resolution proposed by 32 nations calling on France and Tunisia to begin "immediate negotiations" for the "withdrawal of all French armed forces from Tunisian territory...
...tears over Bizerte? The French have asked the Tunisian government for years to stop sending aid to the F.L.N...
...that the West would never look at him with the same confidence again": I feel I ought to put the record straight that if France refuses to quit Bizerte and the U.S. is content enough to only issue statements of regret, then not only Mr. Bourguiba and the Tunisian people but the Afro-Asian countries as a whole will lose confidence in the West...
...death toll came in two waves: 1) on Thursday, July 20, when French planes blasted Bizerte for hours, 2) two days later when French paratroopers rained grenades and mortar shells on the close-packed houses of the casbah. In. Bizerte, the myth of the poor quality of the Tunisian fighting men finally died. Dirty and stubble-chinned, they clung to their positions. Four Tunisians held up an entire French company for four hours, killing five paratroopers and wounding 15, and battled on even after two medium tanks had blown to smithereens the houses in which they were sheltered. With howitzers...
...France and the bane of the French army. It is natural for troops in battle to get their food and drink where they can find it. But the paratroopers carried looting several stages further, in keeping with the time-honored practices of the Algerian war. They went through Tunisian houses and emerged with wads of money, watches and jewelry. They wantonly smashed what they could not carry away...