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expressed the solidarity of the rally with the demonstrations all over the world, and in particular the courageous actions in the U.S., and expressed the view that if negotiations were to take place it would be necessary for the U.S. to stop bombing North Vietnam, and withdraw the troops from South Vietnam; so that. the Vietnamese could decide their own future, free from outside interference, The Rev. Clynes Middleton of the Church of Scotland, said that it was important that so many people of differing views were united against the war. Christopher Norwood M.P., examined the history of the Geneva agreements, and showed how the U.S. and the Saigon Regime had frustrated every hope of peace in Vietnam. He declared that the only hope of world peace was the recognition by the Imperialist powers of the rights of National Liberation, In the middle of his address, when he was asked by one of the crowd, why he had not voted against the Defence Estimates, he launched into a complicated defence of the Left M.P.s. It is obvious that the failure of the Parliamentary Left to mount an effective opposition to Wilson, is leaving them way behind the growing militancy amongst the rank-and-file of the Labour Movement. The Edinburgh Demonstration is an indication of that militancy. “eR ee