STUDENTS PROTEST
FOREIGN TROOPS IN SPAIN. DEMONSTRATION AT PARLIAMENT, LITTLE NOTICE SECURED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, February 19.
One hundred Cambridge undergraduates, including ten women, hurried from the lecture rooms and laboratories to invade the lobbies of the House of Commons. Every College and all political opinions were represented.
They declared:— “We are disgusted at the attitude of the Government toward Spain, and we have the right to protest because our lives and the future are at stake.
“We refuse to fight the hideous, new type of war in which rebellion is secretly financed from outside, and we demand the withdrawal of all foreign troops, including Moors, from Spain.”
Most members of the Commons seemed to be too busy to see the undergraduates. Finally Lord Winterton came out and said: “You can thank your lucky stars, my children, you are British. All we have to do is keep out.” The Oxford and London undergraduates are preparing for similar demonstrations.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 111, 20 February 1937, Page 5
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