Algerians privately told de Gaulle they all wanted independence.

Evidence

During his visit to “Binoculars”, after Kabyle village children had dutifully chanted the Marseillaise, Just as I was leaving, the Muslim town clerk stopped me, bowing and trembling, and murmured: “Mon général, don’t be taken in! Everyone here wants independence.” At Saida, where the heroic Bigeard introduced me to a commando unit who had been won over, I caught sight of a young Arab doctor attached to their group. “Well, doctor, what do you think of it all?” “What we Arabs want, and what we need,” he replied, his eyes filled with tears, “is to be responsible for ourselves instead of others being responsible for us.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1025 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: De Gaulle was privately warned that even loyal-looking Algerians wanted independence — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1025; De Gaulle privately told the army the era of European colonial administration was over.

Related

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• De Gaulle’s true intentions on Algeria remain a fundamentally contested riddle. (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle privately judged the era of European colonial administration over. (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle’s triumphant Algeria slogans masked his private conviction the colony was doomed (similarity 0.81)
• Junior officers saw Algerian independence immediately in de Gaulle’s self-determination speech (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s true intentions on Algeria remain irreducibly ambiguous even to his closest associates. (similarity 0.80)
• By late 1958 Muslim sentiment had hardened toward independence (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s decolonisation rhetoric was the final trigger for Challe’s decision. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle publicly promised the army France would stay in Algeria in early 1960. (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle presented secession as one of Algeria’s three possible futures. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• De Gaulle was privately warned that even loyal-looking Algerians wanted independence #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1025
• De Gaulle privately told the army the era of European colonial administration was over. #corroborates (0.85)