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than tinor mnctions. Quite reoanty there has been a noiceable cightening of suthority and an increased severity in punishments. Whether this is a temporary phenomenon or not will be more clearly som when the praent tern of tbhe Prewident comes to an end in 1g6s--a time when mary of the problens mentioned above: authoritarianism, the conflicr of age and power groups, and the results of economic facrifces, scem likely to come to a head. The present paternalisrn can be justifed, and seems to be accepted by the people, on the grounds thar the President's enesgy and vision have pushed and cajoled the country into progres which it would not have made on is own. The people tend to be inert, something which is at once a strength and a weakness, bur the danger is that continoing paternalism will make them more inert. On the other hand Tunisia has been burressed by other rare values. Its longstanding social cohesion has been translated into political unity, and, as the result of long and petient indoctrinatioa since the mid-1930's by a highly organized policical formation, national values have permeated all important sectors of the country.
Time has also been useful; Tunisia had a generation to ripen before plunging into independenr life and this maturity now shows. For these reasots, although it is likely that a period of uncertainty is ahead in the not-too-distant future, when one considers the proved Tunisian capacity for accomnodation and the ability to subordinate petty problems of the nomnent to the pursuit of the principal goal, there is much reason to be hopefu.
In Morocco, a large and more complez country than Tunisia, the transition period just after independence was more unsettled but since then there has been rnore variety and movement in the texture of political life. Uncil 1953 two forces had shared che leadership of the nationalist movenent: the palace and the Istiglal Party. After their temporary efacement, a third force came on the scene, the so-called "resistance," made up by the various terrorist groups in the cicies and the Liberation Army in the countryside. The story of independent Morocco reduced
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