POD: Someone keeps his head after the Sétif massacre and prevents mass reprisals (multiple trials and hangings do occur, over 100 civillians did get killed). Charles de Gaulle, deciding that the rule of law needs to apply to all frenchmen, manages to strongarm the post WWII government into formally recending all restrictions on the franchise/citizenship rights and the vestigies of the Code de l'indigénat in the departments of Algiers, Oran, and Constantine. Upon the founding of the Fifth Republic, with even greater effort, he refuses to oppose a move formally establishing Arabic as a language in which government business may be conducted.
Needless to say, the greatly weakens support for the FLN. Indeed the biggest security/insugency problems in the fifties and sixties was from teh various colons who felt most threatened by the overthrow of the psuedo-apartheid social order.
This does slow down negotiations for the establishment of the EEC, but not by much as growth in A/O/C (as the place in nicknamed north of the Med) seems rather impressive.
Long term ramifications?
HTG
Needless to say, the greatly weakens support for the FLN. Indeed the biggest security/insugency problems in the fifties and sixties was from teh various colons who felt most threatened by the overthrow of the psuedo-apartheid social order.
This does slow down negotiations for the establishment of the EEC, but not by much as growth in A/O/C (as the place in nicknamed north of the Med) seems rather impressive.
Long term ramifications?
HTG