Soustelle’s integration program paired military control with sweeping social and economic reform
Evidence
The equally resented communes mixtes (which Soustelle saw as being “the heart of the political problem” in Algeria) were to be suppressed and broken up into elected rural communes; while to remedy the acute problem of under-administration whereby many an Algerian never encountered a representative of France, Soustelle created an entirely new corps, the Sections Administratives Specialisées or S.A.S. On the cultural scene, Arabic was to be made an official, obligatory language in Muslim schools, and the school-building programme was to be doubled. In agriculture, an embryo agrarian reform was to be initiated; while on the industrial scene a credit of five milliard francs ($148 million) was to be earmarked for the creation of public works, aimed at achieving Soustelle’s top-priority goal — “to breach the front of misery” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 344
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the S.A.S. corps and Soustelle’s ‘integration’ programme, which the reader’s goal explicitly wants unpacked.
- XREF: connects to: Soustelle’s integration program dismantled the two-college system and communes mixtes; Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French
Related
- Soustelle’s integration program dismantled the two-college system and communes mixtes (similarity 0.93)
- Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French (similarity 0.88)
- Soustelle’s integration policy differed from Blum-Viollette assimilation by granting Algeria its own personality. (similarity 0.82)
- Soustelle’s moderate third path was squeezed by both sides (similarity 0.78)