“I hate colonialism, not the French.”

— Habib Bourguiba

[TUNISIA: Neighbor's Duty, TIME, Monday, Dec. 02, 1957, 1, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825330-1,00.html, September 6, 2011]

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Tunisian politician 1903–2000

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