compiled by a Nottingham reader
Some 100 Finnish people demonstrated in Helsinki on hay 18th against the U.S. in Vietnam. The demonstrators carried a flag cp the N.L.F. A spokesman for the Australian seamen who have refused to man a freighter of supplies for Australian troops in Vietnam, has said that "We are prepared to take the ship to Vietnam, but only to bring back our boys." At a meeting called by the General Association of Salvadorian University Studenis, workers and students' leaders said that the El Salvadorian people realised that the Vietnamese people's struggle was their struggle because the U.S. was their common enemy. They said that the U.S. was using the pretext of ‘opposing communism', and they expressed support for the American people's movement against U.S. aggress, ion in Vietnam.
Many New Zealanders picketed the U.S. warship ‘Benjamin Stoddart! when it anchored at Wellington harbour on May 17th. This ship, one of the newest guided missile destroyers in the U.S. navy, has provided gunfire support for the U.S.. Demonstrators carried slogans-"Warring Yanks, get out of Vietnam", "Mein Kampf- LBJ and Hitler's Bible", On May 16th, a hundred prominent citizens, including trade union leaders, university professors added their names to the list of 350 prominent New Zealanders who have already declared their opposition to New Zealand's participation in the Vietnam war. os About 4,000 West Germans held a demonstration and a rally in Frankfurt- Am-Main on May 22nd in protest against the Vietnam war. A telegram from the “est German Socialist Students' Union to . . Chancellor Erhard was read out at the rally, and a leader of the union condemned the Bonn Government for its 'aid' to the South Vietnam regime.