Fascist Rallies Banned In London

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29901, 15 August 1962, Page 15

Fascist Rallies Banned In London

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LONDON. August 14 Three British neoFascist political parties were today refused permission by the Government to hold rallies in London’s Trafalgar square.

The Ministry of Workt banned a National Socialist Movement meeting planned for August 19. a British National Party rally on September 2, and a British Union Movement rally on September 23.

The ban announcement said the meetings seemed “likely to cause grave inconvenience to the public.”

At recent Trafalgar square meetings of the National Socialist movement, led by Mr Colin Jordan, and of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union Movement, there have been near-riots. dozens of arrests, and hour-long traffic jams

At meetings throughout Britain recently National Socialist Movement members have voiced Nazi and antiSemetic sentiments. « The Union Movement is an extreme Right-wing Fascist organisation and the National Party is anti-Semetic and in favour of pushing coloured migrants out of Britain.