 Already there were fears within the "pied-noir" community that not everyone in metropolitan France was as committed to the ideal of "Algérie française" as they would have liked.The French administration allowed "pied-noir" settlers to arm themselves and form self-defense units, measures which had been vetoed by the reformist governor-general Jacques Soustelle a few months earlier.Visiting Philippeville Soustelle recorded that now "the Europeans saw terrorists in every Muslim, the Muslims feared reprisals by the Europeans."