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Striding into Tunis' ornate Constituent Assembly Hall to commemorate Tunisian Independence Day-the deadline for his threatened decision to lead Tunisia into neutralism or Nasserism unless the U.S. and Britain took his part against France-Bourguiba briskly reversed his field, declared, "We tell our Arab and Oriental brothers: We...
The Old Explanation. In Paris French Premier Felix Gaillard, apparently unfazed by the disaffection of one of France's few remaining supporters in North Africa, promptly made matters worse. Racked by lumbago, Gaillard painfully hauled himself to the National Assembly, won his tenth vote of confidence (286 to 147...
Talking over the dispute between France and Tunis with a covey of senior Tunisian government officials one day last week, U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy found that the conversation had turned to the Algerian war. Gently Murphy suggested that the conference get back to the subject it was supposed to be...
But after flying on to Tunis, the tall, imperturbable U.S. troubleshooter scarcely had time to recover from a bout of airsickness before President Bourguiba was trying to persuade him that "it is up to U.S. leadership to convince France that the Algerian war is not profitable." Within 30 minutes of...
Lethal Gifts. The F.L.N. insists that the bulk of its arms do not come from Tunisia at all but are picked up in raids on French military posts in Algeria. But among the rifles found on dead or captured rebels, a high percentage are LeeEnfield .303s, which presumably come from...