Clause (c) could well have been adopted from a rallying-cry at the Battle of Verdun; altogether it meant, as liberals like Jacques Chevallier at once feared, a setting back of the clocks on any suggestion of reform. There could be no question of implementing the statute of 1947 now, let alone of conceding electoral equality to a Muslim community that could murder young French teachers, and certainly not before order was fully restored.

XREF: Connects to broader colonial history where reform is deferred under the justification of restoring order — a recurring pattern across colonial administrations.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 307