On the night of 18 March, over the transmitters of all North Africa, President Ben Khedda proclaimed triumphantly “a great victory of the Algerian people”. It could indeed be said that, through its extraordinary consistency, the F.L.N. at Evian had fulfilled virtually all of its original war objectives as framed at the Soummam Conference back in 1956.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1597