Word: arabization
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...Hour. A shorts-clad German woman contingent got a big hand for an exhibition of ball throwing, even though they several times knocked the medicine ball into the orchestra seats. Young Englishmen flew nimbly on and off the gymnastic horses; 17 lovely young women from the Unifed Arab Republic banged sticks in unison; a troupe of muscle-flexing Danish maids rolled about the stage so sensuously that some of the crowd, reminded of other occasions, were moved to encouraging shouts of "Take it off." If not everyone was professionally proficient, they all were amateurishly enjoying themselves. And the best were...
That was outrage enough for Bourguiba to organize a stylized, Arab-type demonstration. Orators wailed that Tunisians would fight to remove the last remnant of evil colonialism. Crowds ecstatically shouted for action. Roads to the base were blockaded, and Bourguiba warned the French to keep their planes out of Tunisian airspace. Barricades were erected at a safe distance from French outposts...
Long Suffering. Despite nearly ten years in French prisons, Bourguiba has been a devoted friend of France, and the West has long considered him the Arab world's most reasonable statesman. He allowed F.L.N. troops to quarter and train in Tunisia, but to their leaders he repeatedly counseled moderation and faith in General de Gaulle. It was Bourguiba who most notably, though unsuccessfully, urged the F.L.N. to accept the French ceasefire. But the Bizerte base was an irritant, particularly as the French no longer considered it essential, and have been gradually reducing its garrison...
...Evian. In the five weeks since France broke off the talks, the F.L.N. has increased its prestige enormously and won new popularity among Algerian Moslems. Bourguiba, ambitious to lead a united Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey," but can be as anticolonialist and as pan-Arab as anyone. Furthermore, Bourguiba's earnest and devoted friendship seemed to have gotten him nowhere with France, while the F.L.N.'s intransigeance promised to succeed brilliantly...
...Bizerte incident had badly scarred all concerned. De Gaulle had enraged his best friend in the Arab world and damaged France's standing throughout Africa. Bourguiba's standing with the West was founded on his hard-held contention that cooperation got more than bristling hostility. With his truculence last week, Bourguiba scuttled Bourguibaism. If, as a result, he managed to lever the French out of Bizerte, every rising nationalist would be encouraged to believe that defiance achieved more than the moderation Bourguiba once stood for. Either way. the West would never look at him with the same confidence...