UN General Assembly
1958

114. Lately a so-called "referendum" took place in Algeria, and reports claim that polling was heavier in Algeria than in France itself. We all know under what conditions this referendum took place. Algeria is at war, and 800,000 French military and police units patrol the land. The Algerian people under their immediate domination had no other choice than to go to the polls. One article published in a widely-circulated Western newspaper summed up conditions in Algeria as follows: "Under army rule there, opportunities for campaigning against the Constitution were almost non-existent and, because of the unsettled state of the country, the polling took place under army escort and guard in most localities."