By the summer of 1955 Soustelle, always trying in Algeria to find a delicate third path between the opposing extremes of the pied noir lobbies and the Muslim nationalists, was being buffeted by mounting pressures from a multiplicity of directions.

QUESTION: How did Soustelle reconcile his humanitarian qualms with continued military action? The tension worth investigating further.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 362