Volume 16, Number 5 · March 25, 1971
Letter from Paris: Crushing the Radical Press
By Stephen J. Schulhofer
It is nearly three years since the May, 1968, upheavals nearly brought down the French government and the Fifth Republic as well. With many of the same tensions still at play, the government has launched a series of political trials designed to suppress certain elements of the far left. Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others in the French intellectual community have spoken out in alarm. But in spite of their claims that freedom of expression and the very essence of free political life are seriously menaced, government measures against 'extremists' and the 'extremist press' have continued to multiply.
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