Integration was feasible in 1936 but a delusion by 1958

Evidence

To replace the all-powerful Salan, de Gaulle appointed a duumvirate—Paul Delouvrier and General Maurice Challe. The civil and military powers would be divided between them but, in contrast to the past, both posts would be more subject to control from Paris. … On his return he was received by de Gaulle at the Matignon, who asked for his impressions. Having noted how the attitude of the Muslim majority had now hardened towards independence since the initial euphoria of May, Delouvrier remarked: “Mon général, Algeria will be independent.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 950 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algerian integration was only ever workable before 1958; By late 1958 Muslim sentiment had hardened toward independence — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 950; Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958

Related

• By late 1958 Muslim sentiment had hardened toward independence (similarity 0.91)
• Algerian integration was only ever workable before 1958 (similarity 0.91)
• Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958 (similarity 0.85)
• Both Muslims and pieds noirs read integration through self-serving demographic math. (similarity 0.85)
• Pieds noirs read integration as a path to numerical submergence of Muslims (similarity 0.84)
• De Gaulle presented secession as one of Algeria’s three possible futures. (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s independence had become irreversible by 1959 (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian integration would numerically swamp metropolitan France politically. (similarity 0.83)
• Integration would have demographically swamped metropolitan France (similarity 0.82)
• France could not contemplate Algerian withdrawal because Algeria was legally part of France (similarity 0.82)
• Post-independence Arabization made French integrationist dreams seem never realistically possible (similarity 0.81)
• Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French (similarity 0.80)
• Interdependence forced reconciliation between France and Algeria despite violence. (similarity 0.80)
• A liberal colonia could have kept Europeans in independent Algeria. (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s separate electoral colleges made 60,000 Muslims equal to 500,000 French (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958 #expands (0.80)
• By late 1958 Muslim sentiment had hardened toward independence #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 950