An influential Tunisian newspaper, Afrique-Action, criticized the Moroccan Government today for its policy of trying to force Jews to remain in the country. At the same time, broadcasts from Morocco, some of them disguised under the name of “Voice of Mauretania, ” continued their anti-Tunisian attacks today, accusing Tunisia’s President Habib Bourguiba of “selling out to France, Zionism and American imperialism.”
Afrique-Action pointed out that, while it does not agree with Israel’s policy calling for “ingathering of the exiles, ” Tunisia does permit Jews wishing to go to Israel to emigrate. By contrast, the newspaper pointed out, the recent Mediterranean Seadrowning of 43 Jewish Moroccan emigrants on their way to Israel, points up the results of Morocco’s policy of shutting the doors to Jewish emigration. Such a policy, said the newspaper, is “a grave error. “
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