Ouamrane’s memorandum called for a provisional government to regain initiative

Evidence

“The hour is grave,” he began; the military situation was worrying; the revolution was losing way: “The revolutionary spirit has disappeared among leaders, officers and militants alike, to give way to bourgeoisification, bureaucracy and opportunism.” To regain the initiative that had passed to de Gaulle, and before his regime had time to consolidate itself, Ouamrane urged: the speedy proclamation of a provisional Algerian government; a new diplomatic offensive to take full advantage of East-West rivalry in the Cold War; the launching of a “second front” of terrorism inside metropolitan France itself. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 964

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘second front of terrorism in metropolitan France’ connects to earlier chapters on the F.L.N.’s urban terrorism campaigns and France’s home front.