Paris judged Algiers as the gravest mob-seizure threat since 1934

Evidence

In Paris the events in Algiers had been followed by utmost confusion. There was a feeling that never since the bloody clashes of February 1934 had circumstances so favoured a seizure of power by the mob. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 877

Related

• Metropolitan France was largely oblivious to the gravity of the Algiers crisis. (similarity 0.82)
• Algerian ultras refused to reckon with metropolitan France’s reaction (similarity 0.81)
• The ‘Algeria is France’ consensus spanned nearly the whole French political spectrum (similarity 0.80)
• French metropolitan public had grown apathetic about Algeria by late 1961. (similarity 0.80)
• Censorship and metropolitan distraction masked the gravity of the Algiers crisis. (similarity 0.79)
• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.79)
• French metropolitan democracy attenuated, while colonial Algeria criminalized, dissent against empire. (similarity 0.78)
• Algeria remained pro-Vichy while Equatorial Africa went over to de Gaulle. (similarity 0.78)
• City-level apartheid emerged in Algeria only at war’s end (similarity 0.78)