Word: tunision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moslem sovereigns, the Bey of Tunis (1881) and the Sultan of Morocco (1912). Last week the French cabinet decided that it would "accept no [outside] interference in these questions which relate essentially to the national competence of France."
None of the acupuncturists had any doubts as to the efficacy of their gold and silver needles, with which they claim to restore the cosmic equilibrium between the forces of yang (positive) and yin (negative). When a man has an ache or pain, either yang or yin is getting out...
In the dark of night last week, 300 French soldiers surrounded the house of Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Chenik. According to the French version, Chenik, an irreconcilable nationalist, was dressed and waiting when the police arrived. According to Chenik's son, the Prime Minister was rudely awakened "like a...
The coup had been smoothly engineered by France's new Resident General in Tunisia, Jean Marie François de Haute-cloque, an idealistic onetime soldier and longtime diplomat, who, as a French representative in the Levant, saw France lose Syria and Lebanon in the dark days of World...
Paris shuddered at such tactics. Left-wing Paris dailies likened De Hautecloque to Hitler, and predicted dire trouble in Tunisia. Instead, after two days, the shaken Bey, who looks like a distinguished European actor impersonating an Arab, yielded to French demands. He went even further, blaming Tunisia's troubles...