PLEAD FOR HUGO BLANCO
Almost 400 participants.in the second Socialist Scholars Conference, held in New York September 9-11, signed a petition to President Fernando Belatinde Terry for amnesty for peasant leader Hugo Blanco and his twenty-seven | co-defendants now on trial in Tacna, Peru. .
The list was headed by the two main guest speakers of the conference, Isaac Deutscher, world-famous historian, and Professor Conor Cruise oe Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, New York University..: oe Do
The signers included such distinguished academic figures and. left American intellectuals as the newly elected president of the conference, Professor Eugene Genovese of Rutgers University, New Jersey; Paul Booth, a leader of Students for a Democratic Society; Herbert Aptheker, historian and leading theorist of the American Communist party; Harvey Swados, novelist; Paul Sweezy, editor of Monthly Review; Professor Franz Schurmann, University of California, Berkeley; Professor Andres Gunder Frank, Sir George Williams Univer-.. sity, Montreal, Canada; James Petras, University of California, Berkeley, student of Latin-American affairs; Professor Marvin Gettleman, Columbia University, New York; James O'Connor, economist and writer on Latin-American affairs, San José State College, California; Professor Nathan Hare, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; Professor Robert S. Brown, Fairleigh Dickenson University, New Jersey.
Also;. Ruth Gage Colby, Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom; Professor Oliver Loud, Antioch College, Ohio; Joseph. Hansen, editor of The Militant; Victor Rabinowitz, civil-liberties attorney; William Ash, philosopher; Alfred Evenitsky, editor, Science & Society; Emile Capouya, literary critic; Alex Munsell, publisher; Joseph M. Gilman, economist; Professor Aileen Kraditor, Rhode Island University; Dr. Annette Rubenstein, author and literary critic; George Novack, Marxist theoretician.
Also, Frank Kofsky, historian, University of Pittsburgh; Professor David Herreshoff, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; Lew Jones, National. Chairman, Young Socialist Alliance; Manuela Schleicher, Columbia University; Saul Landau, writer; Bettina Aptheker, Berkeley student leader.
This group. asked. the: Peruvian president to exercise clemency and immediately liberate Hugo: Blanco and his co-defendants. Their. voices lent support to the appeal made by the national Pro-Amnesty > Committee of Peru to free all the political prisoners now behind bars in that country.
AN APPEAL FROM JAPAN FOR HUGO BLANCO
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