Suez delivered captured Western arms to the F.L.N. and bolstered its morale.

Evidence

On the one hand, F.L.N. morale soared; now they could reckon on getting real assistance from a victorious Nasser, and in fact a large consignment of British and French arms abandoned after the cease-fire would soon be flowing in to them. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 496

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The China visit boosted F.L.N. morale more than its arms supplies did — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 967; The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512

Related

• The China visit boosted F.L.N. morale more than its arms supplies did (similarity 0.88)
• Suez’s humiliating withdrawal devastated returning French troops’ morale in Algeria (similarity 0.83)
• Suez shattered Britain’s independent foreign policy and France’s trust in Anglo-Saxons (similarity 0.80)
• Nasser’s Egypt offered rhetoric but no material aid to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
• The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality (similarity 0.79)
• Nasser’s material support for the F.L.N. proved negligible despite his rhetoric (similarity 0.79)
• French paratroops hardened in Algeria led the Suez landing. (similarity 0.79)
• American arms sales to Tunisia inflamed France’s wartime grievances (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s entanglement likely fuelled Mollet’s rush to Suez. (similarity 0.79)
• French leaders saw new arms inflows as the main threat to military victory (similarity 0.78)
• France believed wrongly that toppling Nasser would collapse the Algerian revolt. (similarity 0.78)
• The F.L.N. had only twenty mortars and ten machine-guns before the Athos (similarity 0.78)
• Cold War powers angled around the Algerian question for their own strategic gain (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The China visit boosted F.L.N. morale more than its arms supplies did #responds-to (0.65) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 967
• The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality #complicates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512