The still-born Blum—Viollette Bill was the ultimate plea for "assimilation". It aroused the most glowing hopes among Muslim liberals, but when — like every other endeavour of reform between 1909 and 1954 — it was thwarted, they were replaced by black despair.

XREF: Connects to the broader pattern of failed colonial reform attempts leading to radicalization and the eventual Algerian independence struggle.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 104