Word: tunision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Leader for the Parade. France's intransigence put pro-Western Habib Bourguiba squarely on the spot. Appearing in the streets of Tunis, he was greeted by outraged crowds shouting. "Give us arms! Give us arms!" L'Action, official organ of Bourguiba's Neo-Destour Party, editorialized...
"Tunisia is unique in the Arab world as having allied herself unequivocally with the Western bloc," says Bourguiba. "Tunisia is a bastion in North Africa, and U.S. support is vital if I am to maintain my influence with the Algerians. The only thing that has kept the Algerians from moving...
At this rebuff, Félix Gaillard promptly suspended discussion of the military and economic aid pact that France has been negotiating with Tunisia. Simultaneously, he dispatched a pair of personal aides-one of them Army General Georges Buch-alet-to Tunis with a private message for Bourguiba. Bourguiba took...
In reply, Bourguiba told his National Assembly that he wanted friendship with France, but friendship with dignity. "The time for intimidation is past," he said. As for the prisoners, a representative of the International Red Cross had arrived in Tunis to talk to representatives of the Algerian rebels, and he...
One Rejection, One Concession. Armed with this evidence that France has complied with last February's U.N. recommendation to work for "a peaceful, democratic and just solution" in Algeria, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau moved to the attack against Arab nationalists in the U.N. Political Committee (see box). He cold...