This expansion of the harkis, Challe stresses with maximum emphasis to the present day, was only to be achieved if the harkis could be assured that France would never abandon Algeria and leave them to face a night-of-long-knives at the hands of a triumphant F.L.N. Challe insists that de Gaulle's personal guarantee was implicit.

XREF: Relates to the broader history of France's withdrawal from Algeria and the fate of the harkis, which connects to colonial abandonment narratives across French decolonization.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1062