As might be expected the most strident protests and the biggest demonstrations against American aggression have come from China, including one march by 2 million people in Peking past the North Vietmam Embassy. However, all the Communist countries have had demonstrations and sent protests so we will confine ourselves to those in the capitalist and third worlds.
One of the first and most violent demonstrations took place at Yacca, Bast Pakisten, where 200 University students stormed U.S. Information Centre and smashed it up; elsewhére in Pakistan there has been universal condemnation of the U.S. attack, M. Rahman and M. Ahmad, members of the National Assembly denounced the action, and the papers, Daily Jang, Daily Anjam, and the Pakistan Times, have all carried eitorials attacking the U.S.3; In Algeria the Trade Unions, youth organisations, students, all the leading newspapers, and numerous groups of workers have all come out against the U.S.3; in Buram, the writers! union, several student organisations, the papers Ludu and Rangoon Times, Daily Mirror, Working People's Daily and Rangoon Daily, various mass orgenisations, and numerous lead= ing politicians and public figures have all issued statements denouncing the attack on North Vietnam; in Egypt, the headquarters of many African nationalist organisations, statem.ents on the questionshave been iss'ed by groups representing Angola, South Africa, higz-mbique, the Congo, Southe :« Rhodesia, South West Africa, 'Spanisif Guinea, 'Portuguese! Guinea, and 'FrenoH# Somalilend, supporting the North Vietnemese against the U.S. ag aressions; and in Cambodia, where the Government has been sharply critical of the American action, there have been demonstrations and support their Government's stand from’all walks of life includiny various political formations, the student organisations, all the leading papers, etc.
In Canada, the Prime Minister said in Parliament on August 6th that his Government had asked the U.S. to avoid further actions which would endanger peace, T.C. Douglas the leader of the NDP said that the Canedian Government should make it clear to the U.S. that it would not support U.S. military designed to keep in power ‘discredited regimes'; in Japan a meeting was representing 137 orgmisations, including the C.P. ani S.P., was held on August 6th to discuss measures to cope with the urgent situation in the Far East, the meeting decided to organise protests to the U.S. Embassy and to form a workings committee to organise mass activity and meetines against the U.S. agseression, demonstrations havo taken place outside the U.S. Embassy nearly every day since the atteck, statements have been issued by personalities from all walks of life and from all political parties denouncing the U.S. action, the Japanese Socislist Party held an emergency meeting at which it was decided to press the Government to demand that the U.S. put an end to the attacks and refuse to allow the American to use Japanese military bases; in Sweden, a demonstration was orgenised by various youth and peace organisations outside the U.S. Embassy on Aucust 5th; in Ceylon the Prime Minister expressed her anxiety over the U.S. attack and said that peace could be best served by the withdrawal of ell foreign troops from the area, all the important papers have denounced U.S. aggression, mass organisations, including the trade unions and youth groups have rian 33: rey &@ mass meting of protest was organised on August 6th which had speakers all the left parties and two M.P.s Robert Gunawardena and Edmund Senarekkody 3
Virtually every organisation and section of opinion in Indonesia has expressed itself against the Americans and there have been numerous demonstrations, including some egainst the U.S. Embassy; in Denmark two demonstrations were staged in front of the U.S. Embassy on August 5thz in Paris on August 7th a mas meeting wes held to denounce the U.S. eir assnult on North Vietnam; other actions have taken place in Belgium, Ghana, Nepal, Sudan, Uruguay, Verzuela, Zanzibar, India, 4ustralia, New Zealand, Chile, Norway, Itely, and the U.S. itself.
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