At the same time the hard-liners were pressing vigorously for a new policy of sharpened revolutionary zeal within Algeria, involving imposition of a tighter control over the population. Supported by the moderate Saad Dahlab, Ferhat Abbas resisted this on the grounds that it would only make the F.L.N. look more extremist to the outside world, and thus render the prospects of negotiations with de Gaulle even more precarious. But it was plain that Abbas was in a minority position, and his own future increasingly uncomfortable.

XREF: This traces a power transition within Algerian revolutionary leadership that parallels broader patterns of military-ascendancy during decolonization movements.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1172