The F.L.N.’s founding proclamation set principles held unbroken through seven and a half years

Evidence

Excessively grandiloquent as it may have sounded at the time, the truly remarkable feature of the F.L.N. proclamation as a document was that its basic principles were to be adhered to with absolute fidelity during seven and a half years of war, right through to the final settlement. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 298

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the reading purpose around the Algerian independence concept’s continuity across the war—its fixed ideological core from 1954 to settlement.