Protest Outside U.S. Embassy
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—-Copyright!
LONDON, July 3.
Eighteen people—four of them juveniles —were arrested last night after a Vietnam demonstration outside the United States Embassy in exclusive Grosvenor Square.
Scotland Yard said that those arrested were charged with a variety of offences, including possessing offensive weapons, assaulting the police, obstructing the footpath, and threatening and insulting behaviour. Several hundred members of Left-wing organisations had paraded around the square displaying paper facsimiles of London street signs reading: “Citi’ of Westminster, Genocide Square. W.l” (W.l is the postal district). A spokesman for the Com-
mittee of 100, a Left-wing organisation which helped arrange the demonstration, said It had been intended to “rename” the square by superimposing their signs over the real ones.
The “genocide” demonstration came after a rally of sympathisers of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in Trafalgar square, at which the American child-care expert, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Australian-born British Labour M.P., Mrs Anne Kerr, spoke.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19670704.2.123
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31412, 4 July 1967, Page 15
Word Count
159Protest Outside U.S. Embassy Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31412, 4 July 1967, Page 15
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.