France won the 1957 U.N. battle to keep Algeria an internal affair

Evidence

Seen purely in overt terms of United Nations votes collected, however, 1957 was a disappointment for the F.L.N. despite the intense activities of their representatives there. French diplomacy had fought a hard struggle to maintain that Algeria was an “internal affair” for France, and therefore the United Nations was not competent to deal with it. … At the February session, to which the F.L.N.’s abortive general strike launching the Battle of Algiers had been geared, the powerful Political Committee, by a narrow vote of 34 to 33 with 10 abstentions, threw out the Afro-Asian resolution, and it was defeated once again in December 1957. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 766

Categorization

• XREF: The narrow 34-33 vote and the internal-affairs doctrine connect to the wider decolonization literature on how colonial powers used sovereignty rhetoric at the U.N. — connects to: The F.L.N. strike aimed to externalize Algeria’s conflict to the United Nations.; The F.L.N.’s U.N. lobbyists won influence through cosmopolitan charm networks; The Bandung Conference internationalized the Algerian cause and opened the road to the U.N. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 407 (+6 more)

Related

• The F.L.N. strike aimed to externalize Algeria’s conflict to the United Nations. (similarity 0.91)
• The F.L.N.’s U.N. lobbyists won influence through cosmopolitan charm networks (similarity 0.86)
• The Algiers defeat exposed a fatal interior-exterior rift in F.L.N. leadership (similarity 0.83)
• The Bandung Conference internationalized the Algerian cause and opened the road to the U.N. (similarity 0.82)
• Defeat in Algiers pushed the F.L.N. leadership toward internal collapse. (similarity 0.82)
• Bandung’s condemnation of colonialism internationalized the Algerian conflict. (similarity 0.81)
• F.L.N. leadership regrouped in Tunis after losing Algiers to the French. (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria would be lost on France’s interior political front, not on the military front (similarity 0.81)
• The F.L.N.’s Algiers urban operations failed almost entirely on the opening night (similarity 0.80)
• France ending Algeria was a victory over itself, not a defeat (similarity 0.80)
• Soustelle predicted France would lose Algeria on the home front, not militarily. (similarity 0.80)
• Granting Tunisian and Moroccan independence without Algeria was a strategic error. (similarity 0.80)
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S. (similarity 0.79)
• French diplomatic restraint on atrocity propaganda crippled its U.N. fight (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algeria’s war began in the same year France lost Indo-China #expands (0.70)
• Eastern bloc nations first armed the Algerian rebels in late 1957 #qualifies (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 809
• The F.L.N.’s defeat in Algiers forced a strategic pivot that later yielded victory #expands (0.60)
• Cold War powers angled around the Algerian question for their own strategic gain #responds-to (0.60)
• The Soviet Union granted the Algerian government de facto recognition at the U.N. #contradicts (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1409