F.L.N. propaganda won by telling more truth than the French did
Evidence
In vain Henry III sent the Parisians a veracious account of his conduct of the campaign in which the great foreign army had been turned back at a minimum cost in money and blood. In vain he ordered Te Deums for his triumph. The Parisians gave all the credit to the Duke of Guise. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 389 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Jacques Soustelle complained that, when sent to New York by Mollet in 1956, he had found in the French delegation offices a cupboard stuffed with unused material and photographs on F.L.N. atrocities in Algeria, sent by Lacoste for propaganda purposes at the United Nations. “But these were never used by us, for fear of offending the niceties of diplomacy. So how could you win the diplomatic war when you were fighting with your hands tied like this?” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 764 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: F.L.N. propaganda caused mass defections within French-native army units; F.L.N. propaganda triggered mutinies within veteran Algerian army units.; Truthful royal victory reports lost to Guise’s propaganda in Paris — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 389 (+2 more)
Related
- French diplomatic restraint on atrocity propaganda crippled its U.N. fight (similarity 0.84)
- F.L.N. propaganda caused mass defections within French-native army units (similarity 0.83)
- Truthful royal victory reports lost to Guise’s propaganda in Paris (similarity 0.83)
- F.L.N. propaganda triggered mutinies within veteran Algerian army units. (similarity 0.82)
- F.L.N. propaganda undermined the loyalty of Algerian army units. (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Truthful royal victory reports lost to Guise’s propaganda in Paris
#exemplifies(0.45) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 389 - French diplomatic restraint on atrocity propaganda crippled its U.N. fight
#complicates(0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 764