We publish on page four an extremely important document, It is the statement of aims adopted the first meeting of the Tribunal to investigate the allegatetion of war crimes in Vietnam, This Tribunal brings together a collection of left wing intellectuals, jurists and writers of a most impressive calibre. Three of the world's greatest men hold the most important offices: Bertrand Russ#ll, president; Jean Paul Sartre, executive presidentszand Vladimir Dedijer, chairman. Other members of the Tribunal include: Lelio Basso, Simone de Beauvoir, Lazaro Cardenas, Isaac Deutscher, Gunther Anders, (we shall publish next week a full list of the members with biographical details, etc.). The Tribunal has many enemies (not all of them from the American State Depart~ ment, to put it mildly) and the bringing together of these people on a common understanding was a great achievement, The American authorities hove let it be known that they are very angry with the French Government for not banning the Tribunal activities on French soil. In this country the capité«list press acts in a disgusting way by its malicious reports and downright distortions, Their hatred of the Tribunal is self-revealing; they fear its verdict and understand the value of this operation against reactionary propaganda. The opposition of certain sections of the labour movement has more complicated origins but is just as determined and devious. The left must respond by giving this Tribunal the full help it can, by opposing all the arguments, including the subtle ones against it.
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