CHARLES BETTELHEIM VOICES SOLIDARITY WITH HUGO BLANCO
Paris
On December 19, the well-known author and economist, who is a professor at the Sorbonne, sent the following telegram to President Belatinde Terry:
il register a solemn protest against the threat of death hanging over Hugo Blanco.
PROMINENT PARTS PROFESSORS INTERCEDE FOR HUGO BLANCO
Paris The following letter was sent to President Belatinde of Peru on December 30:
"Mr. President, "The members of the teaching staff at the University of Paris and other French university centers which we represent have been deeply shocked at the threat of death facing Mr. Hugo Blanco and -some of his comrades.
“As professors we are very much attached to the universal principles underlying the rights of Man, respect for human beings and the free expression of their ideas. We have permitted ourselves to write you in order to ask you to devote more of your attention to this trial in order to prevent the sentence of death threatening Hugo Blanco from being carried out. We would also like to ask you that this trial be transferred to the jurisdiction of the civil courts.
"In drawing up this petition, Mr. President, we have relied on your benevolence and the deep social sensitivity that has always inspired you. In this knowledge, we have permitted ourselves to hope that you will accept our request in behalf of Mr. Hugo Blanco and his comrades.
"Directeur de l'Institut de Formation I.F.R.E.D.
"Chombard de Lauwe, Directeur d'Etudes.
"Gohe, Directeur de l'Institut d'Ethnologie Sociale.
"Lambert, Professeur de Sociologie Urbaine a 1'Université de Paris.
"Berthe, ’Professeur a 1'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes et a l'Institut
des Etudes Politiques de 1'Université de Paris.
"Directeur général adjoint de 1'I.F.R.E.D.
"Polikers, Professeur de Géographie a l'Université de Paris.
“Frangois | Chevallier, Professeur 4 l'Institut des Hautes Etudes de 1 'Amér-
ique Latine de 1'Université de Paris; Directeur de la Casa de Velasquez,
Espagne; ancien Directeur de l'Institut Frangais d'Etudes Andines a
Lima, Pérou.
"Pierre Vilar, Professeur 4 la Sorbonne et Directeur d'Etudes 4 la Section
de Sciences Economiques et Sociales de 1'Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes de 1'Université de Paris.
"Ernest Labrousse, Professeur 4 la Sorbonne et Directeur ‘a'Etudes.& la
Section de. Sciences Economiques et Sociales de 1‘Ecole Pratique des
Hautes Etudes de 1'Université de Paris."
FRENCH ACTRESS CIRCULATING PETITION FOR HUGO BLANCO
The French actress Frangoise Bertin has informed the French Committee for Soli-~ darity with the Victims of Repression in Peru that she is circulating a petition for funds and signatures among members of the Actors Union to help Hugo Blanco.
PARIS SCHOOL UNION VOICES SOLIDARITY WITH HUGO BLANCO
Paris The following letter was sent to President Belatnde Terry on November 26:
"Your Excellency,
"The Cartel of Ecoles Normales Supérieures learned with indignation on reading le Monde of November 26 that the former student and peasant union leader Hugo Blanco is threatened with death in your country. We beg you to transmit to your government the following resolutions:
"'We affirm our sympathy with the work of Hugo Blanco which gave the peasants of Cuzco valleys their first chance for economic development and human development;
"tWe call your attention to the fact that this sentence constitutes a political crime, a judgment before a military court not providing any guarantee for the legal rights of the defendants;
"We proclaim once more our attachment to political rights and the right to organize unions and our resolute opposition on any occasion when the freedom of the unions is threatened.'
"Le Cartel des Ecoles Normales Supérieures.
"Ecole Normale Supérieur d'Ulm.
"Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud.
"Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles de Sevres.
"Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles de Fontenay.
"Ecole Normale Supérieur d'Enseignement Technique.
"Ecole Normale Supérieure d'Education Physique.
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