from a London Correppondent
At the earliest opportunity, on Wednesday October 24, Labour Party speakers ensured that an open-air mecting called by Paddington 2nti-Fascist Comm ittee was transformed into a protest against the threatened U.S. invasion of Cuba. The crowd was asked to accompany Committes members to Grosvenor Square, where trade-unionists wore demonstrating outside the U.5. iimbassy. On Sunday afternoon, October 28, South Paddington Labour Party called a march from Bayswater to Trafalcar Square, where the Hands Off Cuba Committee and the Union of Democratic Control heid a joint meeting, The Paddington march was well supported by members of North and South Padding ston C.L.P.s, the Young S°ialists, South Paidington Communist Party, local trade-unionists and members of tenants! organisations, SOUTH SHIBLDS LABOUR PuRTY AND TRAD.S COUNCIL DENOUNGS:: U.S. ACTION OVIR CURA (from a Durham correspondent) :
at an emorgoncy mcoting the South Shiolds Labour Party and Trades Council passed a resolution donouncing the U.%. blockade of Cuba and described its action as piracy on the high soas. The resolution also condemnod the negative atiitude of the British Governmont. MID-T a wb CTION Dak iT FOR " INVWAD.3 CUBA" CANDIDAT 3S. Three Republican candidates in America's lid-Wost, who had oithor advocated or hinted at invasion, and whose re-election was a forozone thing, wore defeated. in the mid-term elections for the U.S. Senate. Sonator Homer Capehart of Indians ’ he President's "self=a appointed gencral," was defeated. So was Senator Viloy, of Wisconsin, the doan of the Sonate and for long tho senior Republican mombor of the Sonate Foreign Rolations Conmibieds 4nd so, in liinnesota, was Walter Judd, a former Chinese missionary and lattcr-day idolator of Chiang Kai-shck who was the Republicanst koynote orator at thsir Prosidential convention. It soens that even Senator averett Dirksen, the Republicans' leader in the Senate, would lose, but he evontually gainod a narrow majority over a libsral Democrat, DWDONSSTANS ATTACK U.S. CONSULIT, During the ‘Cuba crisis’ “IndonosYans demons strating against tho US Blockade of Cuba broke windows and burned furnituro at tha US consular buildings in Surabaya, ast Javas