Parliamentary instability at home drove plotting for de Gaulle’s return.

Evidence

In November 1957 the thirty-five days without a government preceding Gaillard had shown the nation rising to greater heights of ungovernability at home and its prestige sinking to all-time depths abroad. From then on the plotting and counter-plotting had redoubled. The new period of parliamentary instability following the fall of Gaillard on 15 April had added a fresh fillip to the conspiracies, of which there were basically two kinds: those that were specifically for the return of General de Gaulle, and those that were not. Only the former knew precisely what, and whom, they wanted, but were disunited as to how and when. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 837

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: President Coty’s threat to resign broke the impasse for de Gaulle’s return.; De Gaulle may have countenanced a military takeover as a fallback. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 908; France’s Algerian military dominance coexisted with its political weakness at home

Related

• President Coty’s threat to resign broke the impasse for de Gaulle’s return. (similarity 0.94)
• France’s Algerian military dominance coexisted with its political weakness at home (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle’s delayed return secured legitimacy and independence from the army (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle may have countenanced a military takeover as a fallback. (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle restructured Algerian governance into a two-tier hierarchy to tighten control. (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle took power in June 1958 offering no Algerian solution. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle let subordinates voice hard-line positions he would later disavow. (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle was willing to shed blood to preserve the state (similarity 0.80)
• Challe’s loyalty to the republic collapsed only when de Gaulle shifted toward Algerian self-determination (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s military ultimatum pressured a French president into inviting de Gaulle. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s new constitution shifted power from parliament to a national leader (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle privately favored negotiating with the Algerian rebels as early as 1957 (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s political successes could not translate into any Algerian peace progress (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• De Gaulle may have countenanced a military takeover as a fallback. #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 908
• France’s Algerian military dominance coexisted with its political weakness at home #corroborates (0.55)