Word: arabization
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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 can be no French grandeur without French North Africa!" the colons proclaimed...
...gang of rascals and traitors ... If France abandons us, the love we have for her will turn to hatred. We will fight by all means in our power, and we will come out into the streets even if it means being killed." Down From The Hills. Impatient Arab nationalists also recognized that their fate was tied to the success of the Tunisian settlement. In Algeria and Morocco, terrorists stepped up their activities...
...choice was narrow. Fail to satisfy the colons' demands, and he might bring his own downfall at the hands of the 50 Deputies, headed by ex-Premier René Mayer, who represent the rich pro-colon lobby in the Assembly. Fail to satisfy the demands of the Arab moderates, and France might eventually lose all North Africa...
...their portion of the Arab sultanate of Morocco, the French were having so much trouble with the Arabs that they found it necessary to depose popular Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and to replace him with the ineffective Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. The switch aroused widespread resentment in Spanish Morocco, a resentment which Franco's Fascist radio was not averse to exploiting...
Tunisia, poorest of France's three North African territories, is a land where 250,000 Europeans seek to preserve their privileged status in a land of 3,000,000 Arabs. By last week the points at issue between the two sides had narrowed down to two minor ones: the French insisted on equal French representation in the municipal governments of five towns, and that the Tunisians were unwilling to grant; and the French wanted military control of the Libyan frontier (to prevent Arab infiltrators coming in from the east), and that Premier Ben Amar was unwilling to yield. Faure...