On taking up the command in Algeria, General Lorillot had confided with grim emphasis to a political contact: “They made fools of us in Indo-China … They screwed us in Tunisia … We are being screwed in Morocco. But they will never screw us in Algeria, I swear to you. Let this be known in Paris.” Already by 1956 there was a strong feeling in the army that the politicians were a chief source of its misfortunes, and this was to grow from Suez until May 1958.

XREF: Connects to narratives about civil-military friction and the army's grievance that would culminate in the 1958 Algiers putsch.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 528