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."
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