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Into Tunis stormed aroused colons (overseas Frenchmen) from neighboring Morocco and Algeria. They came to join their Tunisian counterparts in angry protest against Premier Edgar Faure's agreement with Habib Bourguiba, leader of Tunisia's moderate Arab nationalists, which would grant Tunisians substantial control over their country. "There...
He ordered ten infantry battalions, a reconnaissance regiment and 2,000 policemen to Algeria, bringing the French forces there to 100.000-20,000 more than the French expeditionary force remaining in Indo-China. "Repression will be pitiless," warned Minister of the Interior Maurice Bourges-Maunoury. Grappling with the Tunisian problem...
The lobbyists, led by one of Tunisia's two Senators, Antoine Colonna, held a press conference crackling with angry voltage. Dr. Jean Tremsal, top municipal officer of Tunis, declared: "Frenchmen in Tunis do not recognize any agreements which dispose of their fate and their future and that of their...
¶ Towns can elect French members, subject to confirmation by the Bey of Tunis. But in no case will French representation be more than three-sevenths.
One "unguarded moment" in the Yalta record I missed-when F.D.R. appeared at the door of the conference room shouting, "Tunis, anyone?"