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The United States and Nortb Africa statement. This is almost, but not completely, true, and it may be getting less so very recendy. But it is often hard to separate the two, and although Tunisia is not in any sense a one-party state with cocalitarian harshness, it does have the unexciting air of a country in which one party is very dominant indeed. Aside from the neo-Destour today, there are only the Communists with a minuscule following, some young independents of the left, and the unorganized conservative remnants of the old Destour. Individuals sometirnes quarrel with Bourguiba per- sonally or break with party doctrine, but they have almost al- ways returned to the fold, and no real foyer of opposition has developed since the ben Youssef split in 1955 and early 1956. Once again the smooch social contours of Tunisia must be given credit. The party owes much of its success, frankly speaking, co the quality of the men who make up its top and medium leader- ship. The advancages of the age of civilization in the country begin to be seen; the relative richness of human resources in Tunisia compared to many new countries is something it can be proud of and an asset which has been a leading factor in the country's successful adjustment to the modern world. The backbone of the neo-Destour has come from the hard-headed merchants of the Sahel, dour and practical peasant individual- ises, artisans and craftsmen, the brightest lights among the pro- fessional classes in the cities, with a dosage of intellectuals to give it sauce. Its comerstone has been, rather than the brilliant verbosity of many political movements, a quiet, pragmatic flex- ibility, and it has followed the rule that the art of politics is to know what is possible. From this spirit emerged the gradualist techniques of Bourguiba, to advance step-by-step, never to break contact with the interlocutor, to continue negotiating at all times, and to compromise tactically but never on principles. The top party leadership is homogeneous, too; some might almost say inbred. Most of the high officials are graduates of the Sadiqi College, and there is a nucleus from the specialized schools in Paris, particularly the Ecole Libre des Sciences Poli- |
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