PRESENTS NEW DATA ON PEACE PACT SIGNATURES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 247
• Publication Date: February 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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PRESENTS NEW DATA ON PEACE PACT SIGNATURES
(Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources]]
On 29 September 1951, it was reported that the women of Tunis, mostly
housewives, bad collected 2,000 signatures during the previous 2 weeks for
a peace pact among the Big Five.
One door-to-door team alone reportedly collected more than 200 signatures
in li hours, and sometimes actually persuaded an entire section of the city
to sign.(1)
On 14 October 1951, at Sousse, the Comite pour Is Liberation et Is Paix
(Committee for Liberation and Peace) met under the chairmanship of Mohamed
Salah Gaafar, militant of the Old Destour Party, who is well known in the area.
The committee noted that 9,071 signatures had already been collected in
the Sousse area and set for itself a goal of 15,000 additional signatures.
It also decide,, to send 30 representatives from Sousse, Akouda, Msaken,
Ksibet el Mediouni, Moknine, Bembla, Ksar Hellal, Monastir, El Diem, Ksour
Essaf, Zeramdine, and other cities to the national conference of 23 December
1951, which was to elect representatives from Tunisia to the Peace Congress
of the Near East the Middle East, and North Africa.
On 19 October, it was reported that a total of 32,000 signatures had
been collected in Tunis as compared with 28,000 for the Stockholm Appeal.
During the previous week alone, the Peace Committee of North Tunis col-
lected 1,175 signatures. The following were listed among the outstanding
citizens who had signed the Peace Pact Appeal in Tunis: Dr Charfi, Sheik
Lamine Chabbi, Bechar Goucha, Sheik Mohamed Cherchour, and Maitre Rahal.(2)
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On 24 October 1951, the Comite pour In Liberation et is Paix issued the
following report on the collection of signatures in Tunisia:
Southern Tunisia (Redeyef, Moulares, Metlaoui, Gafsa, Nefta, etc.)
Tunis
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42,4
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surrounding area
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640
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Sahel region
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12,716
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Bela
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9,290
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Jez-
ouiref region
Cap Bon region
Others
3,935
6,880
113,322
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Two senor events have stimulated the enthusiasm of the supporters of
freedom and peace: (a) Stalin's statement on atomic weapons deprived the
warmongers of their principal means of blackmail and of arousing fear among
peoples; and (b) the struggle of the Egyptian people has placed an obstacle in
the way of an aggressive pact in the Middle East, which was to be a sort of ex-
tension of the Atlantic Pact-(3)
Darin, the week ending 23 November 1951, 2,290 new signatures were collected
at Sidi Rasrallah, 645 at Ferryville, and 437 were added to Redeyef's previous
total of 27,000.
The total for all of Tunisia, as of the above date, stood at 116,7C1.(4)
SOURCES
1. Tunis, L'Avenir de Is Tunisie, 29 Sep 51
2. Ibid., 19 Oct 51
3. Ibid., 24 Oct 51
4. Ibid., 23 Nov 51
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