 Lifelong communist Louis Aragon published his concerns in a declaration in "L'Humanité", and, together with Jean-Paul Sartre, subsequently refused to participate in the Tenth Congress of Soviet Writers.The Scandinavian Communist parties condemned the trial outright.In the spring of 1968, the US ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg attempted to draw the attention of the UN Human Rights Commission to the plight of the imprisoned writers, describing the trial as "an outrageous attempt to give the form of legality to the suppression of a basic human right."