documents. No evidence relevant to our purposes will be refused attention. No witness competent to testify about the events with which our enquiry is concerned will be denied a hearing.
The National Liberation Front of Vietnam and the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam have assured us of their willingness to cooperate, to provide the necessary information, and to help us in checking the accuracy and reliability of the information. The Cambodian head of state, Prince Sihanoul, has similarly offered to help by the production of evidence. We trust that they will honor this pledge and we shall gratefully accept their help, without prejudice to our own views or attitude. We renew, as a Tribunal, the appeal which Bertrand Russell has addressed in his name to the government of the United States. We invite the government of the United States to present evidence or cause it to be presented, and to instruct their officials or representatives to appear and state their case. Our purpose is to establish, without fear or favor, the full truth about this war. We sincerely hope that our efforts will contribute to the world's justice, to the reestablishment of peace and the liberation of the oppressed peoples.
Resolution of the Tribunal:
We are grateful to the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation for the work which it has already done. We are sure that the preliminary steps already taken by it will help us to complete our task within a reasonable time and with considerable more efficiency than it would have been possible if its preliminary work had not helped our deliberations.
LIDIYA CHUKOVSKAYA'S LETTER TO MIKHAIT, SHOLOKOV
(The texts of two noteworthy documents, drawn up by Soviet writers in behalf of Andrei D. Sinyavsky and Yuli M. Daniel, who were convicted last February of maligning the Soviet Union and given sentences of seven and five years: respectively, have been released in English translations by Harvill Press, a London publishing concern. Given ~ to the press in New York by Harper & Row, the documents were printed in The New York Times November 19. , a
(The first document is a petition addressed to the presidium of the- Twenty-third Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. The petition was signed by 63 writers, including Ilya Ehrenburg. They offered to serve as "surety" for the two condemned authors so that they would not have to go to prison. The petition, submitted at the time of the trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel, was ignored’ by Moscow officials. 7 :
{The second document is a letter written by Lidiya K. Chukovskaya, a literary critic and daughter of Kornei I. Chukovsky, who is one of the most respected literary figures in the Soviet Union. The 84-year-old Chukovsky, as well as his daughter, signed the petition asking for the release of Sinyavsky and Daniel.