AMERICANS IN VIETNAM
Demand For Withdrawal
(N.Z. Press? Association) AUCKLAND, March 28. The immediate withdrawal of any New Zealand “token force” in Vietnam will be urged in a message to the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) by a protest meeting attended by 300 Aucklanders this afternoon.
The meeting will call on Mr Holyoake to demand the cessation of United States’ bombing of North Vietnam, the withdrawal of United States’ forces from South Vietnam and the reconvening of the 1954 Geneva conference.
After the meeting, 100 of the audience took part in a 15-minute picket of the American Consulate with such banners as “No N.Z. Sons, No N.Z. Guns for Yankee War.”
The meeting was sponsored by the Otahuhu Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the Otahuhu Railway Tradesmen, Northern Drivers and Auckland Seamen’s Unions, the Peace Council, Women’s Union and the Christian Pacifist Society.
Lieutenant lan J. Duthie, aged 23, of Whakatane, has been appointed aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of Fiji, Sir Derek Jakeway, for a year.—(P.A.)
AMERICANS IN VIETNAM
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30711, 29 March 1965, Page 10
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