PEACE MASS MEETING
BIG CROWD IN LONDON
REQUESTS TO GOVERNMENT
(Received July .1, 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 30. Mayors in their chains of office, bein edalled ex-soldiers, clergymen, Parliamentarians, hatless girls in khaki shorts, mothers carrying babies, young men addressing each other as Comrade, and children clasping tiny flags, all marching to music, converged on Trafalgar Square from all parts of London for a peace mass meeting. Olive branches were tied to flagpoles, and inscribed banners .advocated peace. Ten thousand people occupied the Square, and the meeting passed with acclamation a motion urging the Government to stop the armaments race, abolish the military' and air forces, and inaugurate international control of civil aviation, ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 9
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113PEACE MASS MEETING Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 9
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