Several more MPs have joined the Free Speech Campaign to allow the three representatives of the NLF of South Vietnam to visit this country. They includes Arthur Lewis, Tom Driberg, David Ensor, Harold Walker and Norman Atkinson. They have undertaken to sign adverts in the national press on similar lines to the New “tatesman letter.
Money for the national press advert has continued to come in, although the rate needs to be stepped up. In addition to the towns mentioned in last week's issue 10/= donations have come from Aberdeen, Oxford, Hull and Wokinge The organisers have started to receive donations from leaflets distributed at CND meeting in London last Friday,
Among the Labour Parties taking action ares South East Derbyshire C.LeP.: at a GMC last week it instructed its delegate to the Labour Party Annual Conference to support the move to get an emergency resolution on the agenda. Mr, Geoff. Kingscott, the delegate, has been instructed to vote for resolution too. Woodside, Glasgow, C.L.eP.es has gone on record for the Free Speech Campaign and has decided to sign the national newspaper advert as a Labour Party, North Nottingham C.L.P.: at its last meeting passed a resolution demating that the NLF representatives be let into the country. The resolution is to go to Annual Conference as an emergency resolution and the delegate has been mandated to support moves to get it on the agenda,
Other moves are: Sheffield Peace in Vietnam meetings some 200 delegates attended a mere last Sunday in the Sheffield Memorial Hall. The main speakers were John “endelson, MP, and Stan Orme, MP. Mr. Mendelson appealed to delegates to impress their views on the coming Labour Party conference. A resolution calling for the Government to press for cease-fire in Vietnam and elections on the basis of of the 1954 Geneva Agreement was passed unamimously, A resolution calling for *he admission of the NLF representatives was passed with only one abstentions Ketteri Northants) Trades Council: at its last meeting it called for the admission of the three NLF representatives. The resolution, passed unanimous= ly, expressed "great concern" at the Foreign Secretary's refusal to allow the visit. The protest is being sent to Foreign Secretary, Mr. Michael Stewart, GLASGOW PEACE IN VIETNAM MUETING by Tony Southall
A meeting attended by over 200 delegates from all sections of the Labour and Peace Movements was held in Glasgow on Sunday, September 19th, under the auspices of the local Council for Peace in Vietnam. The principal speakers, John Rankin, MP, and Lawrence Daly, General Secretary of the Scottish NUM, made it quite clear that they regarded the aggressive acts of American imperialism as responsible for the threat to peace. Both made strong appeals for the maximum protest to be made at the Labour Party Conference. From the floor came en appeal for support for Nottingham City L.P.'s resolution on the refusal to grent visas to the NLF people. One disturbing note was that at the end of the meeting the chairman introduced a motion calling on the Government to dissociate itself from “either side", This seemed rather inmgruous since every speaker had conémed the U.S. and making clear the justice of NLF struggle,
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