PARIS CRISIS DEFERRED
No Conservative Withdrawal Yet
(Rec. 7 p.m.) PARIS, March 20. A threatened French Cabinet crisis was deferred today when the Conservatives postponed till Tuesday a decision on whether to withdraw from the Government over Tunisia.
They are opposed to any compromise plan involving French withdrawal from the Tunisian airfields.
Reports that the Government was about to accept evacuation of the military aerodromes in Tunisia as part of a conciliation deal upset the Conservative and other nationalist groups in the Assembly. Conservative leaders threatened the withdrawal of their Ministers, and a “committee of action” representing a big body of war veterans’ associations, including men who had served as parachute troops in Indo China, went to see the Prime Minister (Mr Gaillard) under heavy police escort yesterday. They warned him that they would demonstrate in the streets on a large scale if the Government displayed “weakness” over Tunisia.
The Prime Minister succeeded in taking the wind out of the Conservatives’ sails today when he gave an undertaking that tomorrow’s Cabinet meeting to consider the “good offices” proposal would not take any irrevocable decision.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28542, 22 March 1958, Page 13
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