French youth, including 25 women, have responded to an appeal issued by a number of prominent figures, among them Professor Laurent Schwartz and Jean-Paul Sartre, to join a "corps of volunteers for Vietnam."
The volunteers in turn issued an appeal to broaden the action so that "the movement of international solidarity will take on the scope of the one that gave birth to the international brigades in Spain." ,
The appeal reported that applications had been received from various countries such as Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland; and the hope was expressed that corps of volunteers could soon be set up in these countries.
The appeal called attention to a recent declaration made by Pham Van Dong, the prime minister:of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, according to which "an appeal for foreign volunteers might be issued in the more or less near future." Van Dong also expressed "the hope that many Americans would join the brigades."