“The wholesale slaughter of the Vietnamese, both in the south and the north of their country, is intolerable. The United States is systematically destroying a whole people by the use of napalm, chemicals, fragmentation bombs, gas, the destruction of their crops, the poisoning of their water, the levelling of their hamlets, the torture of their patriots and the bombing of their hospitals. By any conventional standards of international conduct, President Johnson is guilty of war crimes,
In the face of this barbarity, the response of the British public has been utterly inadequate. The Vietnamese people desperately need a political movement in the West such as is growing in the United States itself. It must make known the full horror of the war, support the Vietnamese demand for honouring the Geneva agreements and work for an end to American aggression in South-East Asia.
For these reasons, I am sponsoring a national conference, details of which appear below. It deserves the widest support.”