Soustelle’s moderate third path was squeezed by both sides

Evidence

At a clinic where Soustelle was shown a child with its eyes eaten away by trachoma, his own feelings were voiced by an aide who was heard to murmur: “Do we really have to bombard such poor devils?” It was typical of the conflicting emotions that the sight of actual suffering, or inhumanity, invariably aroused in Soustelle. Meanwhile, in Paris, resistance to his “integration” concept was gathering momentum as opponents warned of the implications that parliament would eventually be “swamped” by the populous Muslims; that, in its present delicate state of balance, the Assembly might find the casting vote held steadily by a cohesive Algerian bloc. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 362 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Soustelle’s integration policy rejected assimilation while promising perpetual French provincehood; Soustelle saw the O.A.S. as a legitimate third force to negotiate with.; Moderate third-force politics died squeezed between FLN and OAS (+1 more)

Related

• Pressure from the settler right and Paris politics crushed moderate reform from both sides (similarity 0.91)
• Moderate third-force politics died squeezed between FLN and OAS (similarity 0.86)
• Defeated reformism pushed moderate nationalists toward the F.L.N. and total independence (similarity 0.82)
• Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism. (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S. (similarity 0.81)
• The revolution forced even arch-moderate Abbas to abandon gradualism (similarity 0.80)
• Soustelle’s integration program dismantled the two-college system and communes mixtes (similarity 0.80)
• Philippeville’s backlash drove moderate Muslim deputies to repudiate integration (similarity 0.80)
• Soustelle’s integration policy differed from Blum-Viollette assimilation by granting Algeria its own personality. (similarity 0.80)
• Soustelle’s integration program paired military control with sweeping social and economic reform (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Pressure from the settler right and Paris politics crushed moderate reform from both sides #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 362