Stop Press: the Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong

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As we go to press we learn that the Americans have just mounted the biggest offensive of the war against Hanoi and Haiphong, Reporters speek of an area of five hundred square miles in flames, How many thousands of people have been burnt to death is not know, Mr. Wilson has repeatedly said that he will not endorse the bombing of cities in the ~ Democratic Republic of Vietnam, He must now go very much further, No possible excuse remains for the Anerican alliance, which is a butchers! conspiracy against the poor people of the earth, Every socialist, every humane person, must not merely protest, but demand the most explicit condmenation of this atrocity, If Wilson does not repudiate this truly Hitlerian crime, he will stand in history, alongside Mussolini, as one of the most cruel, venial and pathetic lapsed socialists in the whole gallery of finks and traitors who have ever battencd on our movenent, In this event, no M.P. on the left, can have the slightest vestige of an excuse for not registering his immutable hostility in the diviSion lobbies,