Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S.

Evidence

Attacked by such members of the Left in France as Francis Jeanson for being but an opiate of the masses and of knowing only how to spend vast sums of money on “neo-colonial” schemes, besieged by the F.L.N., and now finally extinguished by the O.A.S., the battered ideal of the “third force” died at a time when Algeria had never been more in need of men of goodwill, and enemies of excess and violence. As is so often the tragic path of revolution, it was the Montagne that triumphed over the Gironde. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1585

Categorization

• XREF: The Montagne-versus-Gironde metaphor echoes the French Revolutionary dynamic the reader is tracking across chapters. — connects to: Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism.; De Gaulle’s 1958 arrival threatened the F.L.N. through fraternisation and a Muslim third force; The O.A.S. aimed to make Algeria ungovernable rather than to win it (+5 more)

Related

• Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism. (similarity 0.93)
• Moderate third-force politics died squeezed between FLN and OAS (similarity 0.93)
• Algeria hosted several simultaneous revolutions on distinct levels (similarity 0.86)
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.86)
• The French Left’s inaction eliminated any liberal alternative for Algeria’s Europeans (similarity 0.84)
• Pied noir factions demanded a second front against FLN and Paris alike. (similarity 0.84)
• De Gaulle’s 1958 arrival threatened the F.L.N. through fraternisation and a Muslim third force (similarity 0.84)
• F.L.N. terrorism and G.P.R.A. assertiveness eroded the French ‘third force’ Muslim strategy (similarity 0.83)
• A broad front of ex-ministers formed around Algérie française in 1960. (similarity 0.83)
• Rebel guerrilla tactics eroded the French army’s moral terror over its enemies (similarity 0.83)
• Torture destroyed the Muslim third force and turned French opinion against the war (similarity 0.83)
• Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian revolutionaries split between moderates and hard-liners over the pied noir presence (similarity 0.82)
• Messali’s revolutionary populism later flowed into the FLN and modern Algeria. (similarity 0.82)
• Defeated reformism pushed moderate nationalists toward the F.L.N. and total independence (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. #corroborates (0.70)
• F.L.N. terrorism and G.P.R.A. assertiveness eroded the French ‘third force’ Muslim strategy #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1283
• Algerian revolutionaries split between moderates and hard-liners over the pied noir presence #expands (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1435