France’s last attempt to create a third negotiating force collapsed instantly under F.L.N. pressure.
Evidence
On the day of the publication of simultaneous communiqués announcing the Evian talks, Louis Joxe, de Gaulle’s Minister for Algeria, committed what looked like a major gaffe. He announced that he would “be meeting the M.N.A. in parallel with the F.L.N.”. It was a last final attempt by France to resurrect the idea of a “third force” — and a thoroughly unsuccessful one. The G.P.R.A. exploded; here at the eleventh hour was France trying to turn the peace talks into a round-table affair; trying to do just what Ahmed Francis had always warned they would do — “produce a Bao-Dai out of a hat”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1422
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘Bao-Dai out of a hat’ refrain echoes earlier colonial divide-and-rule tactics discussed in prior chapters of this book. — connects to: The F.L.N. forced the French to abandon every major negotiating demand in sequence.; A French attempt to revive a third force killed the first Evian talks; Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism.
Related
- A French attempt to revive a third force killed the first Evian talks (similarity 0.93)
- The F.L.N. forced the French to abandon every major negotiating demand in sequence. (similarity 0.89)
- Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism. (similarity 0.81)
- Algerian refusal to compromise stripped away each French negotiating demand (similarity 0.81)
- Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S. (similarity 0.81)
- Renouncing Si Salah forced de Gaulle to negotiate solely with the FLN (similarity 0.79)
- F.L.N. terrorism and G.P.R.A. assertiveness eroded the French ‘third force’ Muslim strategy (similarity 0.78)
- Moderate third-force politics died squeezed between FLN and OAS (similarity 0.78)
- France’s refusal of a Maghreb confederation doomed compromise peace efforts (similarity 0.78)