Taking into account the huge discrepancy in wealth, property and land between the two communities — nine-tenths belonging to one-tenth — the excruciating land hunger of the Algerians coupled to their soaring birthrate, racial stresses and pied noir intolerance, and — perhaps above all — the accumulated hatreds of seven and a half years of war, could the Europeans realistically have remained more than a few additional years at best?

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1655