The vicious sentence of 16 months against George Olark for allegedly finciting! crowls during the Greck royal visit evoked on immediate protest movement, “ithin hours of the sontence being passed over 200 people demonstr— ated outside Vormwood Scrubs demanding his release, Anthony Groenwood,vice— chairman of the Labour Party, issued a statement the day eotioeTne in which he said the imprisonment mist be deplored by all who wish to defend traditional freedoms, Next day Anthony Greenwood visited George Clark in prison. §80_ delegates ‘to the Liberal Party assembly, meoting in Brighton, protested and said thoy wore "deeply shocked atthe harshness of the sentence meted out to George Clark.,™ Canon Collins and Harl Russell have both issued statements saying that the 18 months sentence calls into question tho right of political dem onstration, A AS—hour vigil has been held outside Wormwood Scrubs lasting from Friday to Sunday evening, The participants carried posters calling for the release of Goorge Clark — “political prisoner", Saturday evening more than 700 people marched from Hyde Park to Yormwood Scrubs, to be met by several coachloads of police who lined the pavement for several hundred yards,
Roth the National Council of Civil Iiberties. and iirs. Clark hava reported a large mimber of messages of support and protests by groups of people and organisations, Among the latter are the London Sone’) District. Committee of tho 4.8.0. sand the participants in the N,1.L.5.0, school on 'World Socialism! at Hythe who sent protest letters to the Prime liinister, the llome Secretary and Harold Wilson,