Word: tunision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At 4 o'clock one morning last week, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France drove through deserted Parisian streets to Le Bourget Airport. He was bound for another trouble spot-Tunis, the capital of strife-torn Tunisia. Having made a "cruel" peace in Indo-China because...
In his role of political Cassandra, Mendèes had long warned of the need for greater concessions to North Africa's nationalists, and as Premier, had created France's first ministry for Tunisian and Moroccan affairs. But it was already dangerously late. In Tunisia, terrorists shot a...
I made the trip from Tunis to Le Kef in a car provided by the French resident general. The trip is made in the daytime only, over a road patrolled by French troops. Just before we left, the government press officer handed me a German-made submachine gun wrapped in...
Her husband blamed the ignorance of the French public at home. "They have no sympathy for us," he said. "They seem to think we're millionaires who rob the Arabs who work for us." Last week Resident General Voizard flew to Paris to take a request to Premier Mendes...
Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was speaking before London's Constitutional Club, a blue-blood and blue-chip Tory audience which applauded him rousingly. Socialists complained that he had infringed "the rights of Her Majesty's Parliament" by airing "important policy" before a private group, but such...