The self-determination speech widened the split between France and the army and settlers

Evidence

But a great new gap now began to open up between metropolitan France on the one hand and the army in Algeria and the pieds noirs on the other. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1057

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1960 Algerian debate polarized France between two manifestos.; Repeated regime changes left the French army uniquely divided over where its loyalties lay — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1078; Both F.L.N. and French leaders adopted intransigent rhetoric to placate their army hard-liners — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1173

Related

• The 1960 Algerian debate polarized France between two manifestos. (similarity 0.87)
• A broad front of ex-ministers formed around Algérie française in 1960. (similarity 0.83)
• Repeated regime changes left the French army uniquely divided over where its loyalties lay (similarity 0.82)
• The Algerian army command split along loyalty lines when the putsch began. (similarity 0.82)
• Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority (similarity 0.81)
• Pieds noirs and metropolitan French spoke different political languages. (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s departmental status split it from the rest of the Maghreb administratively. (similarity 0.81)
• The self-determination speech instantly demoralized junior officers in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• French metropolitan democracy attenuated, while colonial Algeria criminalized, dissent against empire. (similarity 0.81)
• de Gaulle’s self-determination offer came too late to save Algérie française (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians fighting for France outnumbered those fighting for independence (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian revolutionaries split between moderates and hard-liners over the pied noir presence (similarity 0.80)
• Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle hid his Algerian self-determination policy because public opinion was unready (similarity 0.80)
• The ‘Algeria is France’ consensus spanned nearly the whole French political spectrum (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Repeated regime changes left the French army uniquely divided over where its loyalties lay #corroborates (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1078
• Both F.L.N. and French leaders adopted intransigent rhetoric to placate their army hard-liners #corroborates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1173