The Government General’s contradictory native policies created administrative anarchy and French unpopularity

Evidence

The Government General alone was to blame for this. It had failed in its responsibility of exercising control from above, particularly with regard to native affairs. It had not defined any clear-cut principles. Instead, a combination of incompatible terms had been invoked-assimilation, association, apprivoisement-without producing the desired effects: The first step for those advocating assimilation should have been the creation of schools. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 634

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Republic’s Impossible Embrace: How Universalism Turned Algeria from the Future of France into Its Undoing”