SARTRE AND DE BEAUVOIR PLEAD FOR HUGO BLANCO
The following telegram was sent to President Belatinde Terry of Peru, with copies to the Supreme Council of Military Justice and Hugo Blanco's attorney: INFORMED APPEAL CONTAINS NEW THREAT OF DEATH AGAINST HUGO BLANCO WE ASK YOU MR. PRESIDENT TO GRANT GENERAL AMNESTY FOR HIM AND ALL THOSE IMPRISONED.
The telegram was sent by the Committee of Solidarity with the Victims of Repression in Peru and was signed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Arthur Adamov, Roger Blin, Claude Bourdet, Marguerite Duras, Maitre Jouffa, Claude Lanzmann (editorial board of Temps Modernes), Michel Leiris, Maitre Manville, Frangois Maspéro, Maurice Nadeau, Anne Philipe, Alain Resnais, Frédéric Rossif, Jean Schuster (Surrealist movement), Geneviéve Serreau.