FRENCH INTELLECTUALS SUPPORT HUGO BLANCO
A list of distinguished intellectuals in France have rallied to the support of Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian peasant leader who was condemned September 8 to a. 25-year sentence in the dungeons of El Fronton. During the kangaroo court-martial staged at Tacna, the French intellectuals joined in sending a telegram of protest to President Belatnde Terry in which they appealed for his immediate release.
Among the first signers of the appeal were the following:
Arthur Adamov, Simone de Beauvoir, Roger Blin, Marguerite Bonnet, Edouard Depreux, Me. de Félice, Daniel Guérin, Maurice Jardot,Yves Jouffa, Me. Manville, Maurice Nadeau, Jacques Prévert, Alain Resnais, Frédéric Rossif, Claude Roy, Jean-Paul Sartre, Catherine Sauvage, Simone Signoret, J.-M. Vincent.
André Breton and Jean Schuster for the Surrealist group.
Jacques Lanzman for the editorial board of Temps Modernes.
Eric Losfeld for. the editorial board of Positif.
Frangois Maspéro for the editorial board of Partisans.
THE YOUNG RED GUARDS AND MAO'S "CULTURAL REVOLUTION"
By George Novack :
The activities of the