 The transcript was delivered to the bureau of Radio Liberty in Paris and passed on to the "New York Times", on the theory that the news would have a greater impact if carried first by the "Times" than the avowedly anti-communist Radio Liberty.The trial was universally condemned in the Western media and drew criticism from public figures from around the world.PEN International as well as individual writers such as W. H. Auden, William Styron and Hannah Arendt expressed their indignation.