When the book was banned by censors of the Caetano regime, the Marys smuggled copies of the book to France. Sending copies with a cover letter in French to Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Christiane Rochefort, they called on international feminists for help.[80] Feminists rallied to their support using the book as a feminist icon for the unity of sistership, hosting demonstrations of support in Belgium, England, France, Germany and Sweden, as well as in major cities in the United States like Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D. C. and bringing international pressure to bear on the Portuguese regime.[81][82] Ironically, Novas Cartas Portuguesas was not translated except in fragments until after the authors' acquittal in 1974.[83] The ban of the book, and subsequently ban on discussing it, or the trial, on the news, meant that within Portugal, it was not read either.[84] Subsequently, it was translated into French (1974), English (1975), German (1976) and Italian (1977).[83]