Glossary

PARTIES, POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, AND ORGANIZATIONS

AEF	Afrique Equatoriale Française: the federation of French Equatorial Africa, comprising French Congo, Oubangui-Chari, Gabon, and Chad. The former mandate of French Cameroon, declared a UN trust territory in 1945, was economically tied to the AEF.
AFPFL	Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League, Burma.
ALN	Armée de Libération Nationale: armed wing of the Algerian FLN.
ANZUS	Australia-New Zealand–US defence treaty, 1951.
AOF	Afrique Occidentale Française: the federation of French West Africa, comprising Senegal, Mauritania, French Soudan, Niger, Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), Guinea, Dahomey, and, from 1948, Upper Volta (Haute-Volta). Federal authorities in Dakar also retained links with Togo, another former mandate, made a UN trust territory in 1945.
CGT	Confédération Général du Travail: French trade union confederation.
CMAG	Chinese Military Advisory Group, in Vietnam after 1950.
COMININDO	Inter-ministerial committee on Indochina.
CPP	Convention People’s Party, founded in the Gold Coast, 1949.
CRO	Commonwealth Relations Office.
DOMs	Départements d’outre-mer: French overseas departments, post-1946.
DRV	Democratic Republic of Vietnam, established in Hanoi in 1945.
DST	Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire, French internal security service.
ENA	Étoile Nord-Africaine: North African Star; Algerian nationalist party, founded in 1926.
EOKA	Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston: National Organization of Cypriot Fighters.
FIDES	Fonds d’Investissement pour le Développement Économique et Social: Economic and Social Development Fund, set up in 1946.
FLN	Front de Libération Nationale: Algerian National Liberation Front founded in 1954.
GPRA	Gouvernement provisoire de la République algérienne: Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic.
ICP	Indochinese Communist Party, formed in 1930.
LDH	La Ligue des Droits de l’Homme: (Human Rights League), French lobby group established at the height of the Dreyfus Affair in 1898.
KAU	Kenya African Union.
KCA	Kikuyu Central Association.
MCP	Malayan Communist Party.
MDRM	Mouvement Démocratique de la Rénovation Malgache: Madagascar nationalist party, founded in 1946.
MNA	Mouvement National Algérien: rival to the FLN, led by Messali Hadj.
MPAJA	Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army: largely ethnically Chinese guerrilla force in Malaya in the Second World War.
MRLA	Malayan Races’ Liberation Army: armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party.
MRP	Mouvement Républicain Populaire: Christian Democrat Party, founded in 1944.
MTLD	Mouvement pour le Triomphe des Libertés démocratiques: Algerian nationalist party, forerunner to the FLN.
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization, set up in April 1949.
OAS	Organisation de l’Armée Secrète: reactionary counter-terror group.
OS	Organisation Spéciale: pre-FLN paramilitary group linked to the MTLD.
PADESM	Parti des déshérités de Madagascar: ‘Party of the Disinherited of Madagascar’.
PA.NA.MA	Parti nationaliste malgache: nationalist party strongest in southern Madagascar.
PCF	Parti Communiste Français: French Communist Party, established in 1920.
PLA	People’s Liberation Army, national army of the People’s Republic of China.
PPA	Parti Populaire Algérien: Algerian Popular Party founded in 1937.
PSD	Parti social démocrate: [Malagasy] Social Democratic Party.
RDA	Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, established in 1946.
RF	Rhodesian Front.
RPF	Rassemblement du Peuple Français: Gaullist movement, launched in 1947.
SAA	Syndicat Agricole Africain: West African planters’ association.
SAS	Sections Administratives Spécialisées: army civil affairs specialists in Algeria.
SDECE	Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage: French overseas intelligence service, broadly equivalent to MI6.
SEAC	South East Asia Command.
SEATO	South East Asia Treaty Organisation, established 1955.
SFIO	Section Française de l’Internationale Ouvrière: unified French Socialist Party, founded in 1905.
TOMs	Territoires d’outre-mer: French overseas territories, post-1946.
UDI	Unilateral Declaration of Independence (by Southern Rhodesia).
UDMA	Union démocratique de Manifeste algérien: Algerian proto-nationalist group led by Ferhat Abbas.
UDSR	Union Démocratique et Socialiste de la Résistance: French centre-left party.
UGCC	United Gold Coast Convention, founded in 1947.
UMNO	United Malays National Organization.
UNSCOP	UN Special Committee on Palestine.
VNQDD	Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dong: Vietnam National Party, founded in 1927.
VWP	Dang Lao Dong Viet Nam: Vietnamese Workers’ Party, designation for the Vietnamese Communists from 1951.

ARCHIVES AND PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS

ADA	Archives Départementales de l’Aude, Carcassonne
AN	Archives Nationales, France
ANOM	Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence, France
BDEEP	British Documents on the End of Empire Project
BLO	Bodleian Library, Oxford
CCAC	Churchill College Archive Centre, Cambridge
DDF	Documents Diplomatiques Français
FRUS	Foreign Relations of the United States, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, various dates
IOR	India Office Records, British Library, London
MAE	Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris
MEC	Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford
RHL	Rhodes House Library, Oxford
SHD-DAT	Service Historique de la Défense-Département de l’Armée de Terre, Vincennes
SHM	Service Historique de la Marine, Vincennes, France
TNA	The National Archives, Kew, London
USNA	United States National Archives, College Park, MD

JOURNALS

AHR	American Historical Review
CJAS	Canadian Journal of African Studies
DH	Diplomatic History
DS	Diplomacy & Statecraft
EHR	English Historical Review
FH	French History
FHS	French Historical Studies
FPCS	French, Politics, Culture, and Society
HJ	Historical Journal
IHR	International History Review
IJMES	International Journal of Middle East Studies
INS	Intelligence and National Security
JAH	Journal of African History
JICH	Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
JMH	Journal of Modern History
JSEAS	Journal of South East Asian Studies
MAS	Modern Asian Studies
MES	Middle Eastern Studies
PP	Past & Present
SWI	Small Wars and Insurgencies
OHBE	Oxford History of the British Empire