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AMNESTY No 8.4th October, 1961 Subscription LI-Is, for six months NEW HOME FOR OUR LIBRARY see page 7 Some Laws should be Disobeyed "ABU " puts the case for passive resistance page 2 Indonesian Editor Gaoled One more instalment of the LUBIS saga page 4 Liberia Disbars a Lawyer Peter Archer writes on the CASSELL case page 5 France Clamps Down on her Press by Maitre Nicolas Jacob, Editor of "La Vie Judiclaire" page 5 11Betaito of ZfinneOp'4 ebrifitnuo earb page 3 /// " I wish they would let me out, so that I can get arrested."

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AMNESTYNo 8.4th October, 1961

Subscription LI-Is, for six months

NEW HOME FOR OUR LIBRARY

see page 7

Some Laws should be Disobeyed

"ABU " puts the case for passive resistance

page 2

Indonesian Editor Gaoled

One more instalment of the LUBIS saga

page 4

Liberia Disbars a Lawyer

Peter Archer writes on the CASSELL case

page 5

France Clamps Down on her

Pressby Maitre Nicolas Jacob,

Editor of "La Vie Judiclaire"

page 5

11Betaito of ZfinneOp'4ebrifitnuo earb

page 3

///" I wish they would let me out, so that I can

get arrested."

Amnesty readers are already familiar with Abu's cartoons; below, Abu who •comes from India—birthplace of the passive resistance movement—sets out the arguments for non-violent non-co-operation in a democratic society.

SOME LAWS SHOULD BEDISOBEYED

By ABU ABRAHAM

MANY people in Britain have condemnedLord Russell's campaign of civil disobedienceon the grounds that in a democratic country,where the citizens have legitimate means of per-suasion, the deliberate breaking of the law is,unnecessary and amounts to a violent act.

There are two assumptions behind this view:one, that the means of propaganda are soequitably organised in our society that radicalopinions have a fair chance of winning againstorthodox and established ones; two, that a law,because it has the support of the majority ofthe people is necessarily moral or just. Boththese assumptions are questionable.

In the case of Lord Russell and the Committeeof 100 their agitation is not directed against a lawas such but against a Government policy. The policyis that of preparing for nuclear war and it is onethat affects the people of this country directly andin a more serious way than any law. Lord Russelland others have chosen to oppose this policy andto stress the dangers of that policy to the public bytechnical and non-violent breach of law, or, in otherwords, by civil disobedience. They are willing to

_suffer for their action, in order to appeal to theconscience of their countrymen.

The action is similar to Mahatma Gandhi's " saltsatyagraha " which was to make salt in a chosenplace on the sea and thereby break the salt taxlaw as part of the political agitation against foreignrule in India. It is also comparable to the actionof the suffragettes in Britain who chained themselvesto the railings of the Houses of Parliament.

Gandhi advocated two types of civil disobedience.One was non-violent defiance of an obnoxious lawnewly imposed, and was called defensive civilresistance. The other, where certain laws are defiedas a symbol of revolt against the State, was termedaggressive civil disobedience.

The idea that non-violent resistance should notbe used against a democratic state was never accep-ted by Gandhi. For him " satyagraha " was a callto fight evil wherever it was found. He said :" Those who have to bring about radical changes inhuman conditions and surroundings cannot do itexcept by raising a ferment in society." Gandhinever had faith in majorities. He would not grantthat the majority alone could see the truth. Truth

was something which one had to find and achieveby one's own exertion and selfless realisation. Andwhen one had realised the truth, it was one's dutyto fight for it alone if necessary and even againstall.

Gandhi held thc opinion that civil disobediencewas the purest type of constitutional agitation, pro-,vided those who practised it believed sincerely innon-violence. He said : " That we should obeylaws good or bad is a new-fangled notion. Therewas no such thing in former days. The people dis-regarded those laws they did not like, and sufferedthe penalties for their breach. It is contrary toour manhood, if we obey law repugnant to ourconscience. Such teaching is opposed to religion,and means slavery. A man who has realised hismanhood, who fears only God, will fear no one else.Man-made laws are not necessarily binding on him.We are sunk so low that we fancy that it is our

" Non-co-operation is a duty whenthe government, instead of protectingyour honour, robs you of it."—Gandhi.

duty and our religion to do what the law lays down.If man will only realise that it is unmanly to obeylaws that are unjust, no man's tyranny will enslavehim."

The problem of resisting cvil policies in an armedand organised modern state is discussed by AldousHuxley in " Ends and Means." He says : "All overthe world the police are able to act with a rapidity.a precision and a foresight never matched in thepast. Moreover, they are equipped with scientificweapons, such as the ordinary person cannot pro-cure. . . . The only methods by which a people canprotect itself against the tyranny of rulers possessinga modern police are the non-violent methods ofmassive non-co-operation and civil disobedience.

" Such ,methods are the only ones which give thepeople a chance of taking advantage of its super-iority in numbers to the ruling caste and to discountits manifest inferiority in armaments. For thisreason it is enormously important that the principlesof non-violence should be propagated rapidly andover the widest posijble area. For it is only bymeans of well and widely organised movements ofnon-violence that the population of the world can

(Continued on page 3)

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earbO UR Christmas card, as youean see from the reproductionof its front page, is an unusual one.It does not have any drawings oftTaditional scenes, no robins, noholly. Instead, we have chosen acard which incorporates in six ofthe world's main languages quota-tions which we think express theprinciples which Amnesty hasbeen established to defend.

The purpose of this AMNESTYChristmas Card is twofold:—first,to spread as widely as possible ourappeal for freedom for man's mind;and, second, to raise funds for thework of securing the release ofthose arbitrarily imprisoned.

The English and the Frenchquotations appear on the frontpage of the card which is repro-duced on this page.

The other four quotations are -set out on theinner pages of this three-fold card. Printing is inblack with a red surround — distinctive andattracti ve.

F rom German we have chosen a quotation fromGoethe: " Wir sind gewöhnt class die Menschenverhöhnen wass sie nicht verstehen "—" We havebecome accustomed to the fact that people mockwhat they do not understand."

The Spanish quotation comes from Cervantes:" No hay libro tan malo que no tenga algunacosa buena "--" There is no book so bad that itdoes not contain something good."

We will not try to reproduce either the Russianor the Chinese quotations here—this would be abit of a headache for our printers. In translation

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right to silence one dissenter

Jedeteste vos opinions, mais

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they are: " Every sect has its truth and every truthits sect," which is a Chinese proverb, and aquotation from the Russian 19th century liberalwriter, Belinsky: " For me individual personalitymatters more than the generality of history,society or mankind."

If you are interested in ordering some of thesecards—and we hope that you are—please get intouch with AMNESTY Christmas Card Depart-ment, 153, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1.

Orders can only be dealt with by post as thereare no facilities there for over-the-counter selling.The price of the cards is 6s. per dozen, 6s. 9d.post free or 11 per three dozen post free.

Special arrangements can also be made for over-printing.

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SOME LAWS SHOULD BE DISOBEYED — continued from page 2hope to avoid that enslavement to the state which humanitarianism, characteristic of our age, willin so many countries is already an accomplished fact probably result in non-violent resistance beingand which the threat of war and the advance of treated with a severity more ruthless than that dis-technology are in process of accomplishing else- played by most governments in recent times. Suchwhere." severities, he adds, can only be answered by great

Huxley goes on to say that the regression from numbers and great devotion.

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Editor prefers gaol to restrictions•

MOCHTAR LUBIS, former editor of theIndonesian newspaper "Indonesia Raya " isunder arrest by the military authorities inDjakarta. This situation is nothing new for Mr.Lubis whose arrest in July followed only twomonths of freedom. He had originally beenarrested and imprisoned in December 1956.Following protests, he was transferred early in1957 to house arrest where he remained untilMay this year. During all this time he was notbrought to trial nor were any charges preferredagainst him.

His second arrest followed shortly after his returnfrom the International Press Institutes generalassembly in Israel and the I.P.I. immediately senta formal protest to the Indonesian authorities askingthat they announce as soon as possible any specificcharges they wished to make against Mr. Lubis andhave him tried publicly. No reply has yet beenreceived to this protest,

In Indonesia Mr. Lubis has become well knownfor his adamant defence of the freedom and inde-pendence of the Press. In Djakarta last Septemberall editors and publishers were asked to sign a" document of loyalty " promising to give supportto the principles of " guided democracy " and to allgovernment policies.

Although editors who refused to sign did notrisk imprisonment, refusal meant that they had toresign their jobs—and if no one responsible foreditorial policy signed the declaration then the paperwas closed down. Several Indonesian newspapersceased publication for this reason.

This so-called 19 point declaration has become asource of controversy among Indonesian journalists.Some, like Rosihan Anwar, the editor of Pedawan,another Djakarta newspaper took the view that itwas the duty of editors to keep their papers inexistence. In a letter to the I.P.I. explaining whyhe had signed the 19 point declaration Mr. Anwanstated that in countries such as Indonesia wherecomplete freedom cannot exist because they are stillin the process of evolution towards democracy theprimary duty of the newspaper is to strive—evenat considerable sacrifice of its rightful freedoms—

to continue to exist. It is ironic that though Mr. Anwar signed the 19 point declaration his paper was closed down by government orders in January.

Mr. Lubis, on the other hand, has consistentlyargucd that under no circumstances should a journ-alist be a signatory to such a declaration, whichvirtually commits him to the active support of thepolitical programme of the Indonesian government.

In a letter to the I.P.I. expressing his views onthe subject, Mr. Lubis stated: " To me it is muchbetter for a newspaper to stop publication, if con-ditions no longer permit it to function fully as afree press, to exercise its social responsibility andits duties to truth, justice and freedom. Because anewspaper which out of necessity in order to beable to ' live on ' avoids the exercise of its primefunctions, duties and responsibilities and becomesthe mere carrier of government's handouts is doinga fatal damage to the concept of the freedom ofthe Press. And if this is done by a newspaperwhich had the reputation of being honest, then thedamage is magnified many times.

" That is why I objected several years ago whenmy associates in the ` Indonesia Raya ' wanted to` adapt ' the policies of ' Indonesia Raya ' to the` changing times '. I preferred Indonesia Raya ' tobe silent rather than to shirk its duties and responsi-bilities. I think silence in such circumstances speakslouder than all kinds of ' tactics ' etc."

Prisoners freed in PortugalL) R. ACACIO GOUVEIA, and Dr. EduardoFigueir ed o, both leading members of thePortuguese opposition, have been released fromprison. They were arrested in May, soon afterthey had signed a draft programme which calledfor the abolition of Press censorship, the freedomto form political parties, the release of all politicalprisoners, the freedom of religion and the reformof the courts.

APPEAL FOR AMNESTY notified the Portu-guese Embassy in London in June that both menhad been registered as Prisoners of Conscience.The movement welcomes their release.

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°LIBERIA DISBARS A LAWYER

politicians, it is usually to thejudges that we may look forchampions. Sed quis custodietcustodies?

Last January at the Lagos Con-ference, sponsored by the Inter-national Commission of Jurists, apaper was read by Mr. Cassell, aLiberian lawyer. He was aformer Attorney-General, and hispaper was concerned with theProtection .of the Individual inLiberia. He ventured no majorcriticisms, but pointed to someminor defects. In particular, hereferred to certain penal statutesrelating to political activities, andto some dissatisfaction with thejudiciary, particularly at its lowerlevels.

In May, the Liberian SupremeCourt pronounced him guilty ofcontempt, disbarred him, and

A S a result of the intermin-fl able war in Algeria, thesituation of the French presshas deteriorated considerably.Seizures of whole editions ofpapers and books occur withincreasing frequency.

Recently a weekly was evenseized twice in the same week.'The first edition was seized forthe reason that it contained aninopportune article. The nextday the editor published asecond edition which omittedthis article but the authoritiesthen condemned a secondarticle which had been allowedthe first time, and the paperwas seized once again. It isobvious that seizure is far moreharmful than preventive cen-sorship, since the consequencesare financially grave.

Certain publications are prohi-bited; investigations have takenplace both at newspaper offices

forbade him to practice furtherin Liberia. His comments on thestatutes were held by the Court tobe contemptuous on the curiousground that, while Attorney-General, Ile had been responsiblefor prosecutions under their pro-visions. Mr. Cassell's insistencethat in fact he sought to have thestatutes amended seems almostirrelevant. If criticism of astatute is held to be contempt ofcourt, then every ParliamentaryOpposition is in danger.

The court seemed impressed bythe fact that the criticism hadbeen uttered at an internationalconference. ". . . we questionthe patriotism and the profes-sional good intentions of anyLiberian lawyer, who prefers totake our alleged faults intoforeign countries and before in-ternational forums, and therepaint the Country and its institu-tions in the blackest hues, and

and at journalists' homes. It hasoften happened that left-wingjournalists have spent whole nightsat police stations. Even right-wing journalists are not exempted;and one of them was arbitrarilycommitted to an " internmentcamp " last June. He was re-leased after numerous protests.

The Government attempts tojustify these violations of the free-dom of the Press by invoking theprovisions of Article 30 of thecode of penal procedure. Thisstates that " in the case of crimesand offences against the internalor external security of the State,and only in an emergency, the pre-fects of the departments, theprefect of the Seine, and the pre-fect of the police may, if they areaware that the legal authoritieshave taken no action, personallytake any steps necessary to effectthe establishment of the crimesand offences specified above. . .

In the 24 hours following theseactions, the prefect must submit

attempt to drag her good nameand honour through the filthiestslime of prejudiced and stiltedhalf-truths."

Ignoring both the extravaganceof the language, and the fact thatMr. Cassell's patriotism was notthe matter at issuc, the proposi-tion that criticism at an inter-national conference is more con-temptuous than criticism at homeis a juristic innovation.

Finally, the Court was con-cerned that the criticism had beenexpressed in the presence of theLiberian Chief Justice, who wasattending the Conference. Critic-ism of a Chief Justice may incertain circumstances constitutecontempt, whether he is presentor not, but if the attendance ofeminent Liberian judges at con-ferences is to inhibit discussion,their interest is likely in future tobe less welcome.

The Court was emphatic thatit was not questioning Mr.Cassell's freedom of speech.Equally, of course, the Walrusmeant no harm to the oysters.

all the details of the affair to thePublic Attorney. The prefects,therefore, have only to establishthe crime or the offence, but inreality, the administration punishesby using its power of seizure. Hereis a grave abuse against which thevictims are helpless.

On the one hand, an attempt toaccuse the prefects of having beenpersonally mistaken is bound tofail. On the other, trying to makethe State itself responsible comesup against the principle, recognisedby French law, that the publicadministration is not responsiblefor damages caused by the legalauthorities (the prefect acts, ineffect, as a legal authority).

It is evident that some restric-tions on the freedom of the Pressmay be decreed in times of crisisor national war, and it is no lessevident that publications may beseized if they contain articles con-stituting crimes or offences. Un-fortunately, the seizures aboutwhich we have written are onlyvery exceptionally followed bylegal convictions; they thereforeconstitute manifest violations ofthe freedom of the Press.

by Peter Archer

WHENthe liberties of the

subject are assaulted by

France clamps down on her pressfrom NICOLAS JACOB, Editor of " La Vie Judiciaire" of Paris

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•Behind the Scenes

"MIFF" TAKES ON ANOTHER JOBCVERY Thursday AmnestyI

organisers meet over lunchto exchange ideas and news.At one of these lunches earlyin June, the organisation ofthe " Threes " groups cameunder discussion. The growingnumber of inquiries frompeople interested in joiningsuch a group made it obviousthat there was a need for oneperson to co-ordinate all thesevolunteers. An organiser wasneeded, but who would take iton voluntarily? " Miff will doit " said Peter Archer, a youngbarrister who is one of thefounders of Amnesty. And" Miff "—otherwise known asMrs. Margaret Archer—hasdone it ever since.

But " Miff " is not unused totaking on a variety of jobs on be-half of her husband and herself.When small she could not evenpronounce her own name—thenMargaret Smith and hence acquiredher nickname—but now in herhouse in North-West London shecopes with a variety of tasks.

ranging from typing her husband'sbooks to supporting him in hispolitical work (he was the localLabour candidate at the lastgeneral election).

Recently Mrs. Archer was ap-pointed a J.P., but somehow findstime to spend the equivalent of aday and a half per week onAmnesty work. She takes it all inher stride, explaining " Otherpeople relax at weekends; Peterand I use it to catch up with ourwork."

Since she took on the task of" Threes " organiser, letters of in-quiry have been arriving daily.Mrs. Archer answers them imme-diately if possible. " If peopletake the trouble to write, I thinkthey should have a prompt reply."She admits to doing all her typingthe hard way—with two fingers.But though Mrs. Sophie Otwell,a former refugee who is a quali-fied typist, comes in once a weekto, help with the Amnesty corres-pondence, she does almost all thework herseslf.

Until last year Mrs. Archer wasan infants teacher at an Islingtonschool. Now she spends her

working day at home—quite con-tent to be on her own. " Afterten years as a teacher, it ispleasant to be undisturbed."Nevertheless visitors are alwayswelcome, although they are likelyto find themselves roped in to dosome work. " People who dropin one day for a chat find them-selves returning the next day witha typewriter."

Apart from arranging the" Threes " groups. Mrs. Archer isresponsible for Amnesty's speakerspanel, and is currently makingarrangements for speakers to goand address groups in Manchesterand the Midlands which haveasked to hear about the work ofAMNESTY.

She emphasises that people whojoin a " Three" should not befrightened and think that they aretaking on a formidable task inundertaking to contact prisonersin three very different parts of theworld. There is a lot of workthat can be done at the local level.she points out, and expert help inthe right way to sct about makingcontacts abroad is always avail-able.

THENA HESHEL

News from the " three5 "In ISLINGTON, a group of

workers at a Family Service Unithave formed a Three. One of themembers, Jill Saxby, writes toAmnesty that " three of usactually live at the Unit as wellas work here so that it is a usefulplace for meetings. We have gotthe address of one of ourprisoners—a Greek woman andher family. We have written tothe family and the honorary sec-retary of the League for Demo-cracy in Greece, has promiscd toenquire about the prisoner . . . .we plan to wait until we have alittle more information and then

write to the local paper to getmore supporters."

The PORTSMOUTH Threemeets regularly once a week.According to Harry Forder, oneof its conveners, members callpersonally on different socialistclubs in the area and give themdetails of the AMNESTY Appeal." Then we enlist as many peopleas possible to write at least oneletter per week to whoever weadvise them. We get the clubsecretaries involved to check thattheir members do write theletters."

In CLAPHAM. one of theprisoners allocated to the groupis Mgr. Ludovico Vida, the Vicarof the Bishopric of the Baia Marcin Rumania, has become thespecial responsibility of twomembers of the " Three "—acurate and a member of the localparochial council who as Angli-cans are particularly anxious todo something to help a memberof another church. The case ofRafael Martincz, a 19-year-oldstudent imprisoned in the Dimin-ican Republic has been entrustedto two young student membersof the group, and the group soonhopes to have news from theirthird prisoner, Dr: AntonioFlountis of Greece, whom theyhave already contacted.

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AMNESTY NOTES•No decision yeton Mr. Wang

T HE case of Mr. Shou-Kang

Wang, the refugee from For-

mosa, who arrived in this countryin July and requested asylum fromthe British Government. is stillunder review by the Home Office.

As reported in a previous issue of

AMNESTY, Mr. Wang has been

given permission to stay here untila decision on his application has

been reached.The day after Mr. Wang's

arrival in Britain, Mr. Harold

Davis, M.P., raised his case in aprivate notice question in the

House of Commons. Followingthis, the Government decided that

Mr. Wang should be allowed tostay for fourteen days

Mr. Wang also consulted a firmof solicitors, and the followingweek a lengthy statement in sup-

port of his application was sent

to the Home Office—arid beforethe expiry of the 14 days the

Home Office announced that Mr.

Wang would be able to stay in this

country pending the Government'sdecision.

In view of the hardship causedby the two-month delay

AMNESTY has now sent a special

appeal to the Home Secretary.

NEW HOME FOR THE LIBRARY

Monday. 2nd October saw the

opening of the new offices of thePrisoner of Conscience Library.They are at 5, Essex Court,Temple, London, E.C.4 on thesecond floor. The Trustees of theFund are grateful to the Benchers

of Middle Temple (Inn of Court)

for their kindness in makingavailable these premises (normallyreserved for the use of barristers)on a temporary basis. The tele-phone line CENtral 7867 has

been transferred to the newaddress along with the library filesand card-index.

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READERS REPLY TO QUESTIONNAIRE

The questionnaire of " Thc

Boundaries of Freedom," sent out

with the last issue of AMNESTYhas evoked a good deal of in-

terest, One enthusiast says that she

was glad that it rained all Sunday

because this gave her the chance

to devote the day to the job. When

all the replies from Britain and

abroad are received, they are going

to be analysed and tabulated. The

common ground between themwill be used as the basis of the

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Burma to guarantee Religious Freedom

THE Burmese Parliament is expected shortly to approve a constitutional amendment which will

guarantee the right of non-Buddhists to teach their

religion.Buddhism was recently established as Burma's

official religion. The proposed amendment will add

the words " to teach " to the present constitution

which guarantees that " all persons are equally entitled

to freedom of conscience and the right freely to pro-

fess and practise religion subject to public order,

morality or health. . . ."

The Burmese Government has also announced that

it will form a Religious Affairs Committee to advise

Prime Minister U Nu on problems that could lead

to misunderstanding between Buddhists and non-

Buddhists. The committee will be designed especially

to prevent the denial of appointments and promotions

to non-Buddhists in Government service. It is ex-

pected that various religious groups will be repre-

sented on this committee. •

EVIDENCEThe universities' magazine(you may remember it from Amnesty before

last)

It incorporates Oxford Opinion and is pub-

lished by THAMES & HUDSON

We are now able to tell you that it will be

out on 20th October and once each term

You will be able to buy it at any good book-shop or newsagent near or frequented byuniversity students at two shillings or by a

subscription for one shilling if you send an

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Are you helping?We have ourselves circulated the

paper on approval to those wethought might make a subscription.We now ask them to send in aguinea and in return they will re-ceive AMNESTY until the endof the year.

As the weeks pass so the qualityof the paper will improve. Thisfortnight's issue invites your directparticipation in at least two im-portant matters—asking how youthink a democracy should dealwith civil disobedience, and yourassistance in providing a workingpaper for the Frontiers of Freedomconference.

Help us to stay alive and togrow.

If AMNESTY is to be effectiveas an instrument for the achieve-ment of greater political liberty itmust have a wider circulation—and it must be solvent.

Many of you who are readingthis will already have sent in asubscription to the paper. We askyou to help us get AMNESTYmore widely read. Mention it toyour friends, mention it to strang-ers if you have the opportunity,circulate it or leave it somewherewhere other people will read it.You can do something now byfilling up the coupon below withthe names of people whom youknow would be interested inAMNESTY.

•This is whatAMNESTYis all about

ir HE organisation known asAPPEAL FOR AMNESTY

1961, was launched by a groupof lawyers, writers and pub-lishers in London, all of differ-ent backgrounds, political atti-tudes and religious views.

It aims for the release of allpeople, in whatever country,who are held prisoner for theiropinions and their conscience,who are physically restswinedfrom expressing genuine non-violent views.

It aims to build up in allcountries a publicity campaignwhich will set a tide of opinionrunning in favour of all Gov-ernments—of whatever shadeof opinion, in whatever part ofthe world—guaranteeing thefreedom of men to expresstheir opinions and practicetheir faiths, however opposedto their nation's Establishment.

Membership of the foundinggroup is reserved to those whoare determined to ensure thatthe conduct of APPEAL FORAMNESTY 1961 remainswholly impartial — betweencountries, parties, politics,ideologies, religions. Its aim isnot to speak for non-com-munist prisoners in Communistlands, nor for Communist pri-soners in other totalitarianlands, but to agitate for therights of both—and, indeed,those who are neither.

The Joint Directors are: EricBaker, former Joint Secretaryof the Quaker Centre in Delhiand Secretary of the NationalPeace Council in London until1959, and Peter Benenson, whoin 1956 took the initiativewhich led to the formation of" Justice," the all-party body oflawyers to uphold the Rule ofLaw.

There is a tremendous lotmore to be said about APPEALFOR AMNESTY 1961 thatcannot be said in this column.

If you want to know more,as we hope you do, write toMitre Court Buildings or'phone London Central 7867/9429.

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