French metropolitan public had grown apathetic about Algeria by late 1961.

Evidence

Most disappointingly of all perhaps for the F.L.N. was the fact that, after the initial shock of All Saints had subsided, the pieds noirs resumed their way of life as if absolutely nothing had happened; if anything, they had averted their gaze still further from the root causes of Algerian discontent. … In metropolitan France, Mendès-France had not been deflected from carrying out his North American tour in mid-November, and it was still not yet considered necessary to decree a state of emergency in Algeria. Deadlock threatened. Says Pierre Leulliette: “Fear engenders cruelty; cruelty, fear, insanity and then paralysis. In the centre of Dante’s circle, the damned remained motionless.” This vicious circle now began in Algeria. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 332 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 332

Related

• Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock (similarity 0.93)
• Censorship and metropolitan distraction masked the gravity of the Algiers crisis. (similarity 0.89)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.85)
• The barricade massacre crossed a catastrophic frontier in the Algerian war. (similarity 0.84)
• Metropolitan France was largely oblivious to the gravity of the Algiers crisis. (similarity 0.83)
• French metropolitan democracy attenuated, while colonial Algeria criminalized, dissent against empire. (similarity 0.82)
• Pieds noirs never honestly wanted Algérie française but a protected white-ruled Algeria (similarity 0.82)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.81)
• By late 1960 both Muslim and European Algerians had lost faith in de Gaulle (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian ultras refused to reckon with metropolitan France’s reaction (similarity 0.81)
• The European settler minority is the central obstacle to ending the Algerian war (similarity 0.81)
• Every French reform effort in Algeria was blocked by pied noir pressure groups (similarity 0.80)
• The ‘Algeria is France’ consensus spanned nearly the whole French political spectrum (similarity 0.80)
• Paris judged Algiers as the gravest mob-seizure threat since 1934 (similarity 0.80)
• A lingering Algerian hatred of French rule simmers until it erupts into war (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 332