A group of famous British artists and writers sent a cable to Leonid Brezhnev, secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, in protest against the ransom tax on Jewish graduates. The initiative for the move was taken by Laurence Olivier, and the signatories in addition to him included Peggy Ashcroft, Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud, novelist Daphne Du Maurier, Yehudi Menuhin, playwright Robert Bolt, David Star, editor of the Sunday Observer and Alastair Hetherington, editor of the Guardian.
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