The principle of the strike followed as a direct consequence of the priority of externalising the conflict, determined at Soummam the previous September, but specifically, in its timing and duration, it seems to have been the brain-child of Ben M'hidi. It was to coincide with the opening of the United Nations session in New York and was to last eight days.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 569