In 1943, U.S. Consul Hooker Doolittle prevents French colonial authorities from charging Habib Bourguiba with treason. In 1946, Doolittle, then U.S. Consul in Alexandria, Egypt, issued Bourguiba a visa to travel to the United States for a session of the United Nations General Assembly.
U.S. Consul Hooker Doolittle’s friendship with Habib Bourguiba
Unknown photographer, Untitled photograph of Habib Bourguiba and Hooker Doolittle at Tunisian Independence, 1956 [20 March]
Photograph
Personal collection of Elena Prentice