 Relations between the "pied-noirs" and the Muslims were unfriendly at best, and despite the harmony on the surface, both communities believed the worse about the other.The Algerian War had begun on November 1, 1954 when the first major attack of the FLN was launched, consisting of "scores of scores of spectacular attacks".The conflict began to escalate, as evidenced by the remarks of the Socialist Minister of the Interior, François Mitterrand