Exposure of the secret truce talks deepened the army’s contempt for civilian government

Evidence

News of this association with the arch-enemy, Yacef, was regarded by the para leaders as a piece of sheer duplicity on the part of a civil government they were already growing increasingly to distrust and despise. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 680 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Vidal-Naquet, himself a declared opponent of the established government, admits freely that “no country involved in similar horrors has ever permitted publication of such complete documentation on the subject”. The vehemence of the public outcry, however, was also to have its repercussions in other directions. Army generals like General Allard, corps commander for the Algiers area and Massu’s immediate superior, themselves immaculate of any reproach of association with torture, protested bitterly to the Ministry of Defence against the anti-army attacks in the Press. Their “incessant repetition”, he wrote, “places at risk the morale of the army”. All through the army in Algeria, and, of course, particularly among the paras who saw themselves as the principal target of such attacks, there was an increasingly savage feeling that they had been called in to carry out the dirty work of the civil authorities and were now being carted for it. Once again the plaint, “On nous a fait le coup”, began to be heard in the messes. It was yet another brick in the wall of resentment and contempt rapidly rising against the politicians of the Fourth Republic. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 735 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Army paranoia saw negotiations as surrender and betrayal by politicians.; French protests against torture deepened the army’s contempt for the Fourth Republic — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 735; The French government’s secret parley with Yacef deepened army distrust of civil rule — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 680

Related

• The French government’s secret parley with Yacef deepened army distrust of civil rule (similarity 0.92)
• Army paranoia saw negotiations as surrender and betrayal by politicians. (similarity 0.84)
• French protests against torture deepened the army’s contempt for the Fourth Republic (similarity 0.84)
• Army disaffection and Fourth Republic decay were visible inside the state before 1958 (similarity 0.83)
• French military contempt and complacency blinded them to the coming revolt (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• The French government’s secret parley with Yacef deepened army distrust of civil rule #exemplifies (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 680
• French protests against torture deepened the army’s contempt for the Fourth Republic #complicates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 735