The F.L.N.’s U.N. lobbyists won influence through cosmopolitan charm networks

Evidence

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)

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: France won the 1957 U.N. battle to keep Algeria an internal affair — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 766; French diplomatic restraint on atrocity propaganda crippled its U.N. fight — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 764; Cosmopolitan interests perversely divide a nation’s own status groups — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 700

Related

• French diplomatic restraint on atrocity propaganda crippled its U.N. fight (similarity 0.88)
• France won the 1957 U.N. battle to keep Algeria an internal affair (similarity 0.86)
• The F.L.N. strike aimed to externalize Algeria’s conflict to the United Nations. (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.79)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.79)
• The Algiers defeat exposed a fatal interior-exterior rift in F.L.N. leadership (similarity 0.79)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.78)
• Communism exerted little influence on the F.L.N. war effort (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• French diplomatic restraint on atrocity propaganda crippled its U.N. fight #complicates (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 764
• France won the 1957 U.N. battle to keep Algeria an internal affair #complicates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 766