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...Tunisian government with full jurisdiction over domestic affairs (France will keep control of foreign affairs and national defense). The French Resident General would become more of an adviser than a ruler...
...shake-up in the police in the direction of safeguarding the welfare of all Tunisian residents, including the 3,300,000 Arabs and Berbers as well as the 250,000 colons...
...traveling on momentum. He had no natural following in the Assembly, and had to exploit swiftly the prestige he won at Geneva. But even if he had not promised prompt action on Tunisia, some action would have been required by the situation. In the past month Tunisian terrorists have made 130 attacks on colons and pro-French compatriots, killing 93 victims, wounding...
...adapt for Algeria and Morocco) emerged from ten days of intensive conferences. Mendès used his favorite method of conversations à deux-knocking heads together. This time he set up two-man meetings between French officials and Arab representatives of the Neo-Destour (or Tunisian Nationalist) Party. His most useful collaborator was the Arab's No. 1 nationalist, the ascetic-looking, white-haired Habib Bourguiba, 51, exiled leader of the Neo-Destour. In an adroit move Mendès transferred Bourguiba from lonely sequestration on an island off the Brittany coast to a villa 125 miles from Paris...
This was still exile, but in his villa (guarded by blue-clad troops) Bourguiba was comfortable and could speak freely. He showed no hostility toward France. "Mendès-France represents the last chance for Franco-Tunisian friendship," Bourguiba said. "If Mendès-France fails, after him all will be finished...