De Gaulle publicly promised the army France would stay in Algeria in early 1960.

Evidence

To various units across the country he gave these categoric assurances: “There will be no Dien Bien Phu in Algeria. The insurrection will not throw us out of this country. Pacify. There is time. No need to be hustled….” Then, in scathing terms, he dismissed Ferhat Abbas’s call for “independence”, terming it “a monstrosity”, which could signify for the country nothing but “misery, a reduction to beggary [clochardisation], catastrophe…. When the Algerians will be able to choose, I do not think they will choose that. France must not leave. She has the right to be in Algeria. She will remain there….” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1143

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The army viewed any negotiated ceasefire as toppling its war effort in Algeria; De Gaulle took power in June 1958 offering no Algerian solution.; After December 1960 the army, not the pieds noirs, drove events in Algeria (+2 more)

Related

• Algeria’s top army commander publicly pledged to disobey de Gaulle (similarity 0.85)
• De Gaulle took power in June 1958 offering no Algerian solution. (similarity 0.85)
• De Gaulle sought army success to reconcile it to Algerian independence (similarity 0.84)
• De Gaulle’s conciliatory gestures angered the army while winning no concessions from the F.L.N. (similarity 0.83)
• The army viewed any negotiated ceasefire as toppling its war effort in Algeria (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle’s pursuit of national grandeur required sacrificing Algeria. (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s triumphant Algeria slogans masked his private conviction the colony was doomed (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s ambiguity made every faction believe he would serve their agenda (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle offered amnesties and an honorable truce to the Algerian rebels in 1958. (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s true intentions on Algeria remain a fundamentally contested riddle. (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s ambiguity to the army was deliberate deception for its own good. (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s Algeria offensive aimed partly to distract the army from politics (similarity 0.82)
• Challe’s loyalty to the republic collapsed only when de Gaulle shifted toward Algerian self-determination (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s mystical self-assurance blinded him to the F.L.N.’s political character. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• De Gaulle sought army success to reconcile it to Algerian independence #qualifies (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1002