REPORTS EMBASSY PROMISE THAT HUGO BLANCO WILL NOT BE SHOT
Paris meeting was only part of the vast movement
of support for the political victims of
Jean-Paul Sartre, speaking at a Peruvian reaction. This was shown by the mass meeting April 10 in defense of the messages of various international organizavictims of Peruvian repression, an- tions which have undertaken similar protest nounced that the Peruvian embassy had actions. assured him that Hugo Blanco would not be executed. He said he had received a letter from the Peruvian embassy guaranteeing that Hugo Blanco would not be shot.
Other speakers included Laurent
Schwartz, the renowned mathematician; the
Peruvian writer, Murio Vargas; the jour-
nalist A.P.Llentin; and P. Vandeeburie,
president of the Union Nationale des Etu-
diants de France). They stressed their
wholehearted support for the imprisoned
Peruvians, and emphasized various aspects
of the political and social situation in
Latin America, especially in Peru.
Despite this assurance, he urged that the campaign in defense of the imprisoned Peruvian peasant leader be continued: "We will not cease our struggle until the day Hugo Blanco is free!"
This was well received by the audience, as the Peruvian authorities are Simone de Beauvoir was present as not to be trusted. well as representatives of a number of
trade unions. These included the Confeder-
Sartre told the audience of more al Bureau of the Confédération Générale than 1,500 that a revolutionary bond du Travail [General Confederation of Workunited the freedom struggle led by Hugo ers], the Fédération de 1'Education Nation- Blanco and that of the Vietnamese. The ale {National Teachers Federation], and world-famous French philosopher said that officials of Force Ouvriére [Labor Force]. in face of the international aggression of imperialism, it is necessary to organize internationally against it. The chairman of the meeting read
messages sent by Hugo Blanco. (See World
The sizable meeting was organized Outlook, April 21.) by the Committee of Solidarity with the Victims of Repression in Peru. The hall was filled to overflowing and two or Participants affirmed their deterthree hundred people were unable to get mination to continue the committee's work in. in support of the revolutionaries of Peru.
The meeting was chaired by Daniel Mayer, president of the League for the The meeting closed with the singing Rights of Man. He emphasized that the of "The Internationale."