A surrendered A.L.N. commander publicly urged rebels to accept de Gaulle’s peace offer.
Evidence
The local commander, Youssef Smail, had surrendered and then broadcast an impassioned appeal to his comrades to heed de Gaulle’s paix des braves initiative. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1010
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to de Gaulle’s paix des braves initiative discussed elsewhere, showing how the war of pacification dovetailed with the political peace offer.
Related
- De Gaulle’s soldier’s language misread F.L.N. psychology and ensured rejection of his peace offer. (similarity 0.84)
- De Gaulle offered amnesties and an honorable truce to the Algerian rebels in 1958. (similarity 0.82)
- De Gaulle’s peace offer meant truce, not capitulation, a distinction the F.L.N. missed. (similarity 0.81)
- De Gaulle wanted a harder suppression than his field commander delivered. (similarity 0.80)
- De Gaulle’s mystical self-assurance blinded him to the F.L.N.’s political character. (similarity 0.80)
- De Gaulle took power in June 1958 offering no Algerian solution. (similarity 0.79)
- Algeria’s top army commander publicly pledged to disobey de Gaulle (similarity 0.78)
- De Gaulle publicly promised the army France would stay in Algeria in early 1960. (similarity 0.78)