from David Robinson. Last weck sixty of the most active supporters of the October 22 demonstration met in London to discuss the future activities of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. The militancy of the anti-Wilson demonstration at Cambridge on the previous Saturday was a very encouraging sign of the way in which local groups of activists are translating the lessons of Grosvenor Square into action. Representatives of the American Stop-IT Committee, the Australians and New Zealanders Against the War in Vietnam, and the L.S.E. Socialist Socicty were at the meeting and plans were agreed for similar small, but vcry militant, demonstrations to take place whenever Wilson or Brown visit a University or whcn a leading member of the U.S., Australian or lew Zealand government visits Britain, We are in close contact with the imcrican movement and if possible will organise another major demonstration in the new year in co-operation with the intcrnational Vietnam protest movement. In the meantime it is essential that pressure be kept up on the governments of those countries involved in Vietnam and the special nature of the British government's complicity must be made very clear. A research team has been set up to look into all aspects, both government and commercial, of British complicity. 411 those who can help with this rescarch in anyway should contact David Slancy, 19 College Cross, LONDOli,li.1. ilready the pressure on the British government is forcing them into admissions which would have been hotly denied even a few months ago. In The Times on liovember 7 the following statement from Mr. Healcy appeared in the Parliamentary report.
"Mr. Dickens (Lewisham West, Labour) asked the Secretary of State
for Defence how many United States and South Vietnamese troops
and policemen had been trained at the British Jungle Warfare
School, Johore, Malaya, since 1964, and the cost to the British
taxpaycr.
Mr. Healey, in a writton reply, stated that, excluding those curr-
ently in training, the numbers since January l, 1964 were 240
United States troops and 1,035 South Vietnamese troops. The num-
bers currently in training were respectively 48 and 45. The cost
to British taxpayers was £132,364 for the South Vietnamese. troops.
lo United States or South Vietnamese policemen had undergone
training at the Jungle Warfare school, No training in physical
torture was given." A very good response has bern received to the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign fund-raising appeal but far more money will have to be raised if the campaign is to establish its own office and continue to expand its activities. We need 100 serious supporters of V.S.C. to give us £l a month by bankers’ order and our existanee will be assured. We also need a. large number of voluntary workers - offers of help to: V.S.C., 49 Rivington St., LONDON,U.C.2. Telephone 739 6951. 4 eoncert will be held on Friday, Deccmber 22 to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the foundation of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. As well as being a celebration of this important milestone in the Vietnamese people's struggle for frecdom we hope to raise enough money from this event to ensure the success of a major demonstration early in the new year, Preliminary details are on the opposite page.
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