“I have promised the Tunisian people that the French army will go, If I fail, I will be swept away.”

— Habib Bourguiba

[TUNISIA: The Accused, TIME, Monday, Feb. 24, 1958, 2, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,862990-2,00.html, September 6, 2011]

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