SALUTE TO THE CUBAN REVOLUTION FROM FRANCE
A salutation to the anniversary of Fidel Castro's attack on the Moncada barracks by a number of noted French public figures was carried in the July 27 issue of Le Monde, the French daily:
"We have received the following communication: 'Fourteen years ago, Fidel Castro and his comrades attacked the Moncada barracks, opening the road to revolution in Cuba and on the Latin-American continent.
"'It has never been more evident than now that Latin America has entered a process of liberation of which the first chapter was the Cuban Revolution, which, in its eight-year existence, has won great victories for its peoples.
"tIn celebrating these conquests, we renew our solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, threatened but as full of hope, as it was on the first day.'"
The signers listed by Le Monde were: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Louis Barrault, Madeleine Renaud, A. Kastler (Nobel prize), Laurent Schwartz, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Georges Balandier, Christiane Rochefort, Claude Faux, Giselle Halimi, Armand Gatti, Claude Roy, Lolleh Bellon, Vercors, Ropert Gallimard, Robert Merle, Marguerite Duras, Dionys Mascolo, Jean-Marie Domenach, Léo Matarasso, Nathalie Sarraute, Anne Philippe, J.-P. Vigier, Agnés Varda, Jacques Demy, Aimé Cesaire, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude Couffon.