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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...
Buckingham Palace announced that some of the Queen's old heroes would have their place of due honor at the coronation: Viscount Cunningham, former First Sea Lord and hero of the Mediterranean, will carry St. Edward's crown into the Abbey; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein will...
But most infuriating of all to the Arabs was the fact that, when chips were down in the U.N., the U.S. and Britain sided with France and against the North African nationalists. Emboldened by its victory, Paris locked up the remaining nationalist leaders in Tunis and Morocco, then put the...