CROWDS IN LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 9

CROWDS IN LONDON

PEACE CAMPAIGNERS

PETITION TO FOREIGN OFFICE

LONDON1, September 23.

A crowd, gradually increasing to 10,000, clogged Whitehall today following the International Peace Campaign* appeal and the announcement that a delegation was to call at the Foreign Office. Special police precautions were necessitated. The crowd was at first good-humour-ed and never violent. The din was audible in Downing Street, which the police cordoned off. The mob hooted and jeered, but eventually the demonstration died down as a loudspeaker heralded the approach of the deputation. Amid wild cheers the deputation passed through the cordon and handed in to the Foreign Office a resolution which demanded the instant recall of Parliament, the»publieation of the full text of the Anglo-French proposals, and an effective reaflßrmation of unity ■ of purpose between Britain, France, r and Russia to safeguard international democracy and peace. r The Labour Party will hold 200(1 " meetings during the weekend in a^ lightning campaign "against th» shameful sacrifice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler's threat of war." The League of Nations Union ha» passed a resolution repudiating th# Government's policy of seekii^f Czechoslovakia's surrender to forcer* It expressed the* belief v that such a policy was disastrous to British interests, fatal to British honour, and eventually provocative of war» what* ever the immediate results might be.