1. "What's Wrong?".
- Subjects
PRESIDENTS ,BATTLE of Bizerte, Tunisia, 1961 ,FRENCH foreign relations ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,20TH century French history - Abstract
The article focuses on the military and political decisions of French President Charles de Gaulle, whose actions provoked Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba into siding with the Soviet Union. It states that many Europeans, especially the French, were afraid of a renewed war in Tunisia and of the failed negotiation between de Gaulle and Bourguiba. It adds that the incident in Bizerte, Tunisia was a deliberate attempt to ruin any peace talks between Algeria and France.
- Published
- 1961