The Suez humiliation within the officer corps seeded the later 1958 revolt.
Evidence
When the instant resentment against the British had passed, it was replaced by something far more bitter against their own civil leaders: “Even in Indo-China, said the veterans, where you were betrayed daily by everyone, they wouldn’t have dared do anything like that,” recorded Leulliette. Many of the seeds of revolt that were to sprout eighteen months later were sown among the paras at Suez. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 496
Categorization
- XREF: Directly feeds the 1958 Algiers putsch that ends the Fourth Republic, which later chapters will cover. — connects to: French paratroops hardened in Algeria led the Suez landing. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 494; The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512
Related
- French paratroops hardened in Algeria led the Suez landing. (similarity 0.86)
- Suez’s humiliating withdrawal devastated returning French troops’ morale in Algeria (similarity 0.83)
- The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality (similarity 0.81)
- French military contempt and complacency blinded them to the coming revolt (similarity 0.80)
- Suez shattered Britain’s independent foreign policy and France’s trust in Anglo-Saxons (similarity 0.79)
- The Algerian army command split along loyalty lines when the putsch began. (similarity 0.79)
- Thousands of French officers were implicated and internally denounced in the putsch’s aftermath (similarity 0.78)
- Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality
#expands(0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512