More than 7,000 persons joined here last night in the first public demonstration for Israel during the current Middle East crisis. They included 2,000 students who came to the scheduled meeting in the Latin Quarter and another 5,000 who were unable to find seats and remained outside. The speakers gave their addresses twice, once inside the hall and once outside.
Two public declarations of support for Israel were published in the past 48 hours. The first was issued by the philosopher Jean Paul Sartre and about 100 other French intellectuals. A second statement on the same theme was published today, also signed by mostly leftist intellectuals, called “The Group of Twenty-Nine.” directed by Fmanuel Dastier de la Vigerie, a close friend of Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana.
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