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"Every hour counts, every hour lost may be paid for in blood and disorder," cried Paris' Combat. Last week the fate of France's empire in North Africa continued its lurch toward decision. Both sides—the Arabs, who impatiently demand a measure of independence, and the French colonists, who would deny it to them—knew it.

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...

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