De Gaulle’s Algerian speech moved cynical listeners more than Churchill’s wartime broadcasts.

Evidence

Watching the speech on the television set of a Paris bistro, I vividly recall how tears were brought to the eyes of most of those in the room, including cynical foreign journalists, when de Gaulle uttered those words of semi-mystical communion, “Eh bien, mon cher et vieux pays, nous voici donc ensemble, encore une fois….” I do not remember any fighting, wartime broadcast of Churchill having a greater effect. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1132

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s theme of de Gaulle’s mystical hold on France, contrasting with Churchill’s rhetoric in another war.

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