Further Support for Vietnam Free Speech Campaign

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Support being received from Members of Parliament for the Free Speech Petition is very encouraging. Signatures received up to the 22nd February include: Frank Allaun, Ronald Atkins, James Bennett, Syd Bidwell, Robert Davies, James Dickens, Bob Edwards, Andrew Faulds, Eric Heffer, Arthur Lewis, Stan Newens, Stan Orme, Peter Jackson, David Kerr, Brian Parkyn, Ernest Perry, John Rankin and Ben Whitaker.

A number of M.P's have offered to collect signatures and we expect the Campaign to gather considerably increased support in the coming week. Petitions have been sent to all Labour and Liberal M.P's as well as to a number of Conservatives.

(a) an end to the British Government's complicity in Vietnam

‘ an immediate cessation of United States aggression in Vietnam

Signatures from academics are also coming in at an increased rate. Those universities represented so far include: Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, London - Imperial College, Birkbeck, Bedford, and University College, Leeds, Leicester, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Sheffield and Southampton.

Among the increased Trade Union support received in the last week has been £1.0.0d. donation towards the Campaign from the David Brown Tractors Limited Shop Stewards Committee (Huddersfield).