Yet once the emotionalism of those "great gusts of words" had been flensed, the flesh and bones of the programme looked disappointingly like the mixture as before—even though perhaps applied with extra impetus. Still more effort and money would be expended on the Algerian economy and on education. New efforts would be made to win the war militarily. Lacoste's loi-cadre was swept away, but there would be a single electoral roll, with free elections, and now with a date fixed.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 931