De Gaulle privately told the army the era of European colonial administration was over.

Evidence

On a note of only moderate praise, he began: “What I have heard and seen here in the course of this inspection gives me full satisfaction. I have to say that to you [je tiens à vous le dire]. But the problem is not solved.” De Gaulle then listed its three basic ingredients: the predicament of the Algerians, which had become intolerable because France after a hundred and twenty years had not done enough for them; the progressive enfeeblement of France herself; and the present world situation, where France could no longer cock a snook at global opinion. In Algeria, “We shall not have the Algerians with us, if they do not want that themselves…. The era of the European administration of the indigenous peoples has run its course.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1036 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: De Gaulle’s triumphant Algeria slogans masked his private conviction the colony was doomed; Algerians privately told de Gaulle they all wanted independence.; De Gaulle’s true intentions on Algeria remain a fundamentally contested riddle. (+1 more)

Related

• De Gaulle privately judged the era of European colonial administration over. (similarity 0.94)
• Algerians privately told de Gaulle they all wanted independence. (similarity 0.90)
• De Gaulle’s triumphant Algeria slogans masked his private conviction the colony was doomed (similarity 0.87)
• De Gaulle’s true intentions on Algeria remain a fundamentally contested riddle. (similarity 0.85)
• De Gaulle was privately warned that even loyal-looking Algerians wanted independence (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.82)
• Delouvrier told de Gaulle that Algerian independence was inevitable (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle privately favored negotiating with the Algerian rebels as early as 1957 (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle declared nostalgia for colonial Algeria was a death sentence. (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle declared pied noir colonial nostalgia politically dead in 1959. (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle publicly promised the army France would stay in Algeria in early 1960. (similarity 0.81)
• Gaulle hid his Algeria intentions to avoid capsizing French public opinion. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s true intentions on Algeria remain irreducibly ambiguous even to his closest associates. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle hid his Algerian self-determination policy because public opinion was unready (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• De Gaulle privately judged the era of European colonial administration over. #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1036