DeGaulle of Our Generals

April 23, 1961
An insurrectional power has set itself up in Algeria by a military pronunciamento. Those guilty of this usurpation have exploited the passion of officers of certain special units, the inflamed support of one part of the population of European origin, misguided by fears and myths, the impotence of authorities overwhelmed by the military conspiracy.

This power has an appearance: a quartet of retired generals. It has a reality : a group of partisan, ambitious and fanatical officers. This group and this quartet possess a limited and expeditious ability, but they see and know the nation and the world only as deformed by their fanaticism. Their venture cannot but lead to a national disaster.
Charles de Gaulle, St George's Day 1961