More and more the administrator came to rely on these Muslim intermediaries; some were venerable and honourable old men, laden with decorations, who had fought for France, or served her loyally and with integrity; others owed their position purely to family and tradition, and were known contemptuously by young nationalists as the Beni-Oui-Oui, the rubber stamps of French policy; still others were appallingly corrupt.

DEFINE: Beni-Oui-Oui is a derogatory term for Muslim intermediaries seen as rubber stamps of French colonial policy.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 95