UN General Assembly
1958

70. How otherwise can we explain the policy and the actions of some Governments and groups in relation to such problems as those of Algeria, Palestine, the southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula, Oman and Cyprus? 71. The answer to tire by now unnecessary question whether the people of Algeria want to be independent has been given already, in no equivocal terms, by the sons and daughters of Algeria, who have decided, with their sacrifices and their blood, to live or die in dignity and to be free. This is the real referendum which all the fair-minded and the peace-loving can honestly recognize; this and not the spurious one manufactured in France — in a France which may not yet have run out of glory and of noble deeds, although too many of its leaders are by no means at their finest hour.