US and Soviet block pressure converged to force de Gaulle toward Algerian concessions
Evidence
As if to prove the point, the U.S.S.R. had followed up with a propaganda campaign of unprecedented virulence against de Gaulle’s Algerian policy. Present himself for that crucial Fifteenth Session of the United Nations, the G.P.R.A.’s Foreign Secretary, Belkacem Krim, had for the first time met Khrushchev in person. The unpredictable Ukrainian had stood holding both Krim’s hands for a long pause, then had posed for the photographers in almost affectionate postures. At a reception forty-eight hours later, Khrushchev informed Krim quite casually that the U.S.S.R. was about to accord the G.P.R.A. de facto recognition. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1409 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: American diplomacy aimed to ease France out of Algeria as painlessly as possible; Senator Kennedy’s speech pressured American policy toward Algerian independence; Cold War powers angled around the Algerian question for their own strategic gain (+2 more)
Related
- The Soviet Union granted the Algerian government de facto recognition at the U.N. (similarity 0.88)
- Senator Kennedy’s speech pressured American policy toward Algerian independence (similarity 0.82)
- American diplomatic briefings in 1957-58 aimed to ease France out of Algeria (similarity 0.81)
- Algeria diversified its foreign help across Cold War blocs. (similarity 0.81)
- American diplomacy aimed to ease France out of Algeria as painlessly as possible (similarity 0.80)
- American military aid to France shrank dramatically as Kennedy pushed for Algerian peace (similarity 0.80)
- American policy on Algeria shifted from backing France to abstaining (similarity 0.79)
- Kennedy’s Senate speech shifted US policy toward abstaining on Algeria at the UN (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- The Soviet Union granted the Algerian government de facto recognition at the U.N.
#corroborates(0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1409