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...articulated dissent embodied itself in a manifesto "On the Right to Refuse Service in the Algerian War," which was issued on September 1. The document signed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Andre Breton, Simone Signore and 117 other French artists and intellectuals was essentially a refutation of responsibility for the excesses of the repressive French army. "French militarism, fifteen years after the destruction of Hitlerism, has restored torture," declared the signers. "What is the meaning of good citizenship," they asked, "when it is defined as shameful submission...
...gave orders down through the ranks that the religion issue was not to be mentioned. But a group of 150 Protestant clergymen and laymen, headed by New York's Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) met in Washington to toss a headline-making anti-Catholic manifesto into the campaign (TIME, Sept. 19). The manifesto led to Kennedy's dramatic confrontation with the Houston ministers, and gave the Kennedy forces a golden opportunity to exploit the religion issue in Catholic (as well as Protestant) sections of the U.S. by running and rerunning the film. From...
Expressing the uneasiness of French youth about bearing arms in the sixth year of the Algerian war, the teachers' union issued a manifesto that "the problem of youth has now become the problem of the nation." Young Frenchmen have gone to jail for aiding the rebel FLN. Lyons' Cardinal Gerlier asked prayers to end "the devastating war in Algeria and the terrible problems it poses to the consciences of many, particularly among the young...
...Black Book, by Lawrence Durrell. A glittering, impudent, outrageous novel, all murk and manifesto, written by the author of the Alexandria tetralogy when he was 24 and had just made the heady discovery that he was a very good writer...
...directors were forbidden employment in French radio and television or in state-run or state-subsidized theaters and films. Minister of Culture Andre Malraux (whose daughter and divorced wife were among the signers) was ordered to draft a bill denying state financial aid to any artist who signed the manifesto...