An Anti-Emergency Statement by Americans in 1976 Did Not Break India. Nor Will a Couple of Tweets. When 80 eminent Americans signed a scathing public statement on the repression of human rights during the Emergency, they gave the opposition parties a vital morale boost, but the sovereignty of the country remained intact. Signatories of the 1976 statement included (clockwise from top left) Arthur Ashe, Joan Baez, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Milton Singer, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr and Allen Ginsberg. Politics05/Feb/2021 Two tweets from two foreigners â a teenage Swedish climate activist and a Barbadian-American singer â have posed such a serious threat to Indiaâs sovereignty that the entire government, the BJPâs troll factory workers, suave ministers, the media and motley celebrities have all been busy defending the nation through copy-paste tweets.