Tunis Trouble (1957)

Various. GV. Britain’s Prime Minister Mr Harold Macmillan arriving in car at the Hotel Matignon in Paris. CU. Republican Guard of Honour. LV. Mr Macmillan shaking hands with the French Prime Minister, Felix Gaillard. They face the press and walk up the steps into the hotel. SV. New recruits in Algiers being issued with equipment and rifles. Britain and America have been supplying arms to Tunisian forces which help Algerian rebels’ fight against French Colonial rulers. SV. Recruits receiving rifles. SV. Men complete with rifles boarding trucks for operations in the surrounding mountains in connection with fighting rebels. LV. Trucks driving away loaded with recruits with rifles, & CU. GV. The oil centre showing huts and oil storage tanks in an Algerian oil field. CU. Oil in tanks, pan up to oil derrick. SV. Oil tankers driving away protected by soldier with rifle sitting on the running board. GV. French troops patrolling oil field. GV. Oil centre and oil storage tanks. SV. Mr Habib Bourguiba’s p