from David Robinson Over 20,000 stickers publicising the international rally in Trefalgar Square on Sunday October 22 have already been distributed and 3,000 posters are on display in coffee bars, bookshops, student hosteis and strategic points throughout London. Among the speakers already lined up for the meeting before we march on the American Embassy are Tariq Ali (who recently visited North Vietnam), John Palmer, Ken Coates and Ralph Schoenman. Messages of support have been received from Bill Jones (Té&GWU) and Frank Allaun MoPo, who has also agreed to be a sponsor of the meeting. ‘The text of Frank Allaun's message is printed below:
From Frank Allaun, M.P.
House of Commons,
London, S.W.l.
There is growing war weariness in America. So President Johnson
knows he must get the war over soon - and well before the Presi~-
dential elections in November, 1968. Whilst he is being pressed
very strongly by the U.S. peace movement - a magnificent one -
to end the bombing of North Vietnam, without which there is no
possibility of peace talks, he is also being pressed by the hawks
to get the war over by wiping out the whole population of North
Vietnam. The hawks are prepared to risk a war with China and with
Soviet Russia. So the decision could go either way. At this
moment of decision it is most urgent that the British Government
be pressed to bring its influence to bear against the terrible war
in Vietnam.
With best wishes.
Frank Allaun, M.P. for Salford East. A picket outside New Zealand House has been arranged by a group of New Zealanders living in London on Monday October 9 from 2.30 peMe to 5 pele Leaflets with details of the October 22 demonstration, stressing the point that the march will stop outside New Zealand House while a letter of protest is . handed in, will be distributed. The reverse side of the leaflet will make clear to prospective immigrants and New Zealand tourists the extent of the Holyoake Government's participation in the Vietnam war. The protest movement throughout the world is responding to the recent American escalation with increasingly militant and widespread action as the following news-item shows: