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Vietnam Solidarity Campaign activities grow

· The Week Vol. 5, No. 18, 5 May 1966 · p. 9 of the scan · 311 words

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On May Day, supporters marched under the banner of the Cam Embankment to Hyde Park, At Hyde Park several thousand Govtes UE agen Russell's appeal were distributed together with several hundred of the Voices, About 100 copies of the Bulletin were sold + although strictly speaking one shouldn't sell on the Park and therefore they were sold on the march, The response to all this material was very good and several people gave in their names and addresses to be contacted, The applications for delegates! credentials for the June 4/5 conference continue to come in, A welcome development is that a number of organisations have applied, among thems Ealing No, 2 N.U.R. branch, the Catholic Libertarians Sheffield Labour Club, Hampstead Young Socialists, the Ex-Servicemen's Movement for Peace, Torch, Makysian Students, Arab Revolution, and several Youth and anti-Vietnam war groups, Individaul applications have come from as far afield as Edyburgh, Bristol, Brighton , Cheltenham, Lancaster, Kent, Nottinghan, 1, Lan @shire as well as numerous ones from London, This is promising the conference draws nearer and nearer it is vital that every effort is made by the supporters to get as big and as wide a conference as befits the political job the campaign has set itself,

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