To regain the initiative that had passed to de Gaulle, and before his regime had time to consolidate itself, Ouamrane urged: the speedy proclamation of a provisional Algerian government; a new diplomatic offensive to take full advantage of East-West rivalry in the Cold War; the launching of a “second front” of terrorism inside metropolitan France itself. … Ferhat Abbas expressed strongly to Krim the view that Abane’s death had left a blot on the C.C.E. which could only be expunged if it were dissolved and swallowed up in the wider framework of a properly constituted government.

XREF: Connects to broader patterns of revolutionary movements losing steam and facing consolidation by established powers.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 964