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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...
From the Danish newspaper Information: "The general feeling prevailing in Tunis is that France is not yet ripe for self-government."
55. After Churchill named Viscount Alexander of Tunis as British Minister of Defense, the post of Canada's Governor General was filled by a famous actor's brother: