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Twelve members of the University, including professors H. Stuart Hughes, Paul Tillich, and David Riesman, have signed a statement of faith supporting their French colleagues responsible for the controversial Manifesto...
...Havana's underground, the anti-Red Popular Revolutionary Movement, headed by Castro's former Works Minister Manolo Ray, issued a manifesto: "Under the pretext of freeing us from Yankee imperialism, we have been encircled with the yoke of Russian imperialism. Cubans! Rescue the Revolution from those who have betrayed...
Leaden Capes. The left-wingers have no pre-eminent leaders but a great many troubled followers. A barrage of manifestoes filled the press-manifestoes of Academicians, of mathematicians, of teachers. Left Bank intellectuals were asked to sign the Manifesto of the 49, only to discover they had already signed it when it was the Manifesto...
...manifesto's resounding effect is largely attributable to the great popular interest in the "Jeanson trial." Professor Francis Jeanson was the leader of an underground network composed largely of intellectuals, Moslem Algerians, and former resistance fighters, supporting the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Along with twenty other Frenchmen and five Algerians, Jeanson was tried for treason this fall, in the same military tribunal where Capt. Dreyfus was sentenced as a traitor in 1894. The defense claimed, "When a people resists oppression, it is entitled to every respect... and all the help one can give it." Jeanson, however, was sentenced...
...manifesto challenged the government by demanding, "When the army is in a state of open and latent revolt against democratic institutions, does not revolt against the army assume a new meaning?" And the government replied by black-listing the artists and firing, without hearing, the civil servants who had signed...