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.

XREF: Contrasts with many independence movements whose founding documents are abandoned as war drags on — the FLN's fidelity is the exception worth noting.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 298