As for the rest of the reshuffle of the G.P.R.A., Krim found himself replaced as Minister for Foreign Affairs by Saad Dahlab, his former secretary-general and Ben Khedda's close associate, and whose appointment was one of Ben Khedda's principal conditions for accepting the presidency. Krim was relegated to the lesser function of Minister of the Interior; he remained a vice-president but, instead of just sharing the dignity with Ben Bella, he was forced to accept the addition of a third in the form of another of Ben Bella's imprisoned colleagues — Mohamed Boudiaf.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1450