Thwarted assimilation reforms repeatedly converted Muslim hopes into despair

Evidence

Germaine Tillion had been particularly disturbed by the little alienating unfairnesses she observed — such as Muslims being subjected to the humiliations of personal frisking, while Europeans were tacitly exempt. Soustelle was also not helped when, playing to the pied noir gallery, Bourgès-Maunoury in a hard-line speech to the Algerian Assembly on 27 May promised that his government “will never look about for what are called interlocuteurs valables. I go still further; I claim that no national government after ours will be able to venture upon this path.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 363 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The still-born Blum—Viollette Bill was the ultimate plea for “assimilation”. It aroused the most glowing hopes among Muslim liberals, but when — like every other endeavour of reform between 1909 and 1954 — it was thwarted, they were replaced by black despair. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 104 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Small everyday humiliations of Muslims undermined any chance of integration — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 363; Every reform attempt between 1909 and 1954 was thwarted, dashing Muslim hopes. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 104

Related

• Every reform attempt between 1909 and 1954 was thwarted, dashing Muslim hopes. (similarity 0.92)
• Small everyday humiliations of Muslims undermined any chance of integration (similarity 0.87)
• Pied noir resistance killed the Blum—Viollette assimilation bill. (similarity 0.86)
• The failed Blum-Viollette Bill empowered pied noir obstruction of French reforms (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir control of the Algerian Assembly blocked every major reform since 1909. (similarity 0.81)
• Every French reform effort in Algeria was blocked by pied noir pressure groups (similarity 0.79)
• Soustelle’s integration policy differed from Blum-Viollette assimilation by granting Algeria its own personality. (similarity 0.79)
• Pressure from the settler right and Paris politics crushed moderate reform from both sides (similarity 0.78)
• Soustelle’s integration program dismantled the two-college system and communes mixtes (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Small everyday humiliations of Muslims undermined any chance of integration #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 363
• Every reform attempt between 1909 and 1954 was thwarted, dashing Muslim hopes. #corroborates (0.72) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 104