The Constantine Plan proposed deep economic integration of Algeria with France

Evidence

In order that “this country, so vital and so courageous, but so difficult and suffering, should be profoundly transformed”, an ambitious Five-Year Plan was to be launched, with the object of turning backward Algeria into an industrialised nation. 400,000 new jobs were to be created; 250,000 hectares of new land distributed to Muslim farmers; salaries and wages raised to a par with metropolitan France; and administrative posts made available to Muslims on a ratio of one to ten with those of the mother country; vast new horizons of schooling to be opened to Muslim children. In Paris Lacoste grumbled in disgruntlement that it all offered nothing new over his discarded loicadre; maybe, but the important difference was that the Constantine Plan had the name of de Gaulle, and all his newly acquired authority and weight, attached to it. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 937

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete specifics of the integrationist version of the ‘Savage War of Peace’ — modernization as the counter to separatism. — connects to: Algeria’s oil nationalization triggered French economic retaliation — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1677; Saharan oil gave France a new economic motive to win the war; The loi-cadre sought a federal-partition hybrid for Algeria under French sovereignty — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 478 (+5 more)

Related

• The Constantine Plan made unprecedented economic investment in Algeria (similarity 0.91)
• The Constantine Plan produced measurable Algerian economic and educational gains. (similarity 0.88)
• The loi-cadre sought a federal-partition hybrid for Algeria under French sovereignty (similarity 0.87)
• France made substantial material and infrastructural improvements in Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• The Constantine Plan’s achievements fell far short of its targets. (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s oil nationalization triggered French economic retaliation (similarity 0.83)
• Saharan oil gave France a new economic motive to win the war (similarity 0.83)
• The Constantine Plan’s real achievements were dwarfed by its unmet job and land targets (similarity 0.81)
• The Constantine Plan’s achievements masked severe shortfalls in jobs and land distribution (similarity 0.81)
• Severing Algeria proved a net economic gain for France (similarity 0.81)
• Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French (similarity 0.80)
• French aid unintentionally accelerated Muslim economic competition against pieds noirs. (similarity 0.80)
• The French economy’s prosperity rested on Saharan oil and gas (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.80)
• Saharan oil gave France a vastly increased economic motive for retaining Algeria (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Constantine Plan made unprecedented economic investment in Algeria #expands (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1028
• The Constantine Plan’s achievements masked severe shortfalls in jobs and land distribution #qualifies (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1284
• France made substantial material and infrastructural improvements in Algeria #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 176