Delouvrier told de Gaulle that Algerian independence was inevitable

Evidence

During his visit to “Binoculars”, after Kabyle village children had dutifully chanted the Marseillaise, Just as I was leaving, the Muslim town clerk stopped me, bowing and trembling, and murmured: “Mon général, don’t be taken in! Everyone here wants independence.” At Saida, where the heroic Bigeard introduced me to a commando unit who had been won over, I caught sight of a young Arab doctor attached to their group. “Well, doctor, what do you think of it all?” “What we Arabs want, and what we need,” he replied, his eyes filled with tears, “is to be responsible for ourselves instead of others being responsible for us.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1025 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: De Gaulle was privately warned that even loyal-looking Algerians wanted independence — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1025

Related

• De Gaulle was privately warned that even loyal-looking Algerians wanted independence (similarity 0.94)
• Algerians privately told de Gaulle they all wanted independence. (similarity 0.94)
• De Gaulle privately favored negotiating with the Algerian rebels as early as 1957 (similarity 0.86)
• De Gaulle privately told the army the era of European colonial administration was over. (similarity 0.82)
• By late 1958 Muslim sentiment had hardened toward independence (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle presented secession as one of Algeria’s three possible futures. (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.81)
• Delouvrier’s withdrawal from Algiers demoralized the insurgents (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle’s true intentions on Algeria remain a fundamentally contested riddle. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.80)
• Junior officers saw Algerian independence immediately in de Gaulle’s self-determination speech (similarity 0.80)
• Integration was feasible in 1936 but a delusion by 1958 (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s pursuit of national grandeur required sacrificing Algeria. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s true intentions on Algeria remain irreducibly ambiguous even to his closest associates. (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s decolonisation rhetoric was the final trigger for Challe’s decision. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• De Gaulle was privately warned that even loyal-looking Algerians wanted independence #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1025