Challe planned a three-month military pacification and an oil-financed breakaway Algeria.
Evidence
Challe’s programme was to declare solemnly that the French army’s unshakable intention was to remain in Algeria, and then re-launch a new flat-out “Challe Offensive” against the A.L.N., mobilising eight classes of Algerians of both races for this purpose. In three months he would present France a pacified Algeria, sur le plateau. He hoped, in effect (comments Jacques Fauvet): “to finish what two regimes, four commanders-in-chief and seven governments were unable to finish in seven years”. During this period of three months, a breakaway Algeria could exist economically off the fat of its oil resources, an embargo being placed on their export to France. For the long-term political future of Algeria, Challe basically supported a return to the principles of Lacoste’s abandoned loi-cadre. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1349
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Saharan oil gave France a vastly increased economic motive for retaining Algeria
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