GAULLE Charles de. L. A. S. "Ton Papa C.G.", 14 February 1960, to his son Lieutenant-Commander Philippe de GAULLE (in Toulon); 4 pages in-8 headed Le Général de Gaulle. Important letter on the events in Algeria and the French nuclear force. "I have taken a great interest in your letter. Your assessment of the events in Algeria is the same as mine. In any case, we had to put an end to the excessive pressure exerted by the original Europeans in Algiers, to the political core that was forming in the army, and finally to the myth of 'French Algeria', which only covered up the desire of the 'pieds noirs' to maintain their domination over the Muslims, even if France had to exhaust itself putting down a series of insurrections and making itself unwelcome to the whole world. So the abscess is burst. We have to make sure it doesn't form again. [...] Our bomb will change many people's ideas. It is a success, above all as proof of our ability to embrace the most arduous and complicated techniques and of our determination to follow our own path without yielding to outside pressures. In any case, we are now moving towards building an atomic strike force in which the navy will play a key role"... LNC, III, p. 218.