Delouvrier’s withdrawal from Algiers demoralized the insurgents

Evidence

In a short, unbending broadcast to the nation, he accused the Algiers insurgents of striking “a stab in the back for France, before the world.” He adjured them to return to order, adapting words that had rung out in 1940: “Nothing is lost for a Frenchman when he rejoins his mother, France.” He had been brought back to lead the country, to find for Algeria “une solution qui soit française” (a phrasing that drew growls of rage at its ambiguity in Algiers), and he intended to carry through this responsibility. He closed with an expression of his “profound confidence” in Delouvrier and Challe (a confidence that, in fact, he was far from feeling as in private he criticised both for their “irresolution”). Like Challe’s, the speech made little impact in Algiers. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1107 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: De Gaulle’s broadcast failed to move the Algiers insurgents. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1107

Related

• De Gaulle’s broadcast failed to move the Algiers insurgents. (similarity 0.93)
• De Gaulle’s voice, not force, was the decisive factor that broke the barricades insurrection. (similarity 0.84)
• De Gaulle’s speech rallied France through timing and tone, not new content (similarity 0.84)
• Four factors broke the Barricades insurrection, led by de Gaulle’s speech (similarity 0.84)
• The barricades insurrection proved the decisive failure of the Algérie française cause. (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle’s intransigent refusal to yield to the riots proved strategically correct (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle relocated his Algerian government to escape pied noir mobs (similarity 0.82)
• The Algiers weather broke the barricades’ morale as effectively as de Gaulle’s rhetoric. (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle’s decolonisation rhetoric was the final trigger for Challe’s decision. (similarity 0.81)
• French metropolitan opinion rallied behind de Gaulle against the Algiers insurgents (similarity 0.81)
• Suez’s humiliating withdrawal devastated returning French troops’ morale in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• Delouvrier told de Gaulle that Algerian independence was inevitable (similarity 0.81)
• Algiers ultras harbored deep Pétainist loyalties and distrust of de Gaulle (similarity 0.80)
• OAS believed attacking French Communists would trap de Gaulle politically, but miscalculated. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• De Gaulle’s broadcast failed to move the Algiers insurgents. #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1107