Tunisia Protests To France
(Rec. 8 p.m.) TUNIS. December 1 The Tunisian President. Mr Habib Bourguiba. today accused the French Government of interfering in Tunisia’s domestic affairs by protesting against Tunisia's new “national indignity” law. The law, published last Tuesday . makes it an offence for any Tunisian to have given aid to the former French protectorate authorities, and provides for loss of civil rights and confiscation of property as sentences.
Mr Bourguiba said that his Government never intended “to condemn little people who. although they collaborated, only did so to assure their daily bread.” It aimed particularly at those Tunisians who rushed to seek ministerial posts at a time when the people were enduring the worst sufferings after the arrest of the Neo-Destour Party loaders in 1952.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28450, 3 December 1957, Page 15
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