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Title: | The naturalization crisis of 1933: French analysis and Tunisian Response |
Author: | Jones, Richard E. |
Year: | 1977 |
Periodical: | Revue d'histoire maghrébine |
Issue: | 7-8 |
Pages: | 165-178 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tunisia |
Subjects: | national liberation movements naturalization |
Abstract: | One event in the growth of popular participation in demonstrations and protests against the French Protectorate in Tunisia was the furor aroused in 1933 over the burial of Muslims naturalised as French citizens in Muslim cemeteries. The episode was sparked by an unsuccessful and almost forgotten French policy dating from 1923. The issue was revived by a series of errors in judgement by the government, while the essential role in generating the movement of protest throughout the country was played by the Destour party. Independent of the Destour the newspaper L'Action Tunisienne contributed to the effectiveness of the campaign, by bringing the public outcry to bear directly on the government. There was a temporary union of the two main currents of the national movement, but the different goals and strategics shown by the Party and the newspaper in the affair illustrate the causes of permanent division between the two tendencies. Notes. |