PEACE DEMONSTRATION
MEETING IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE TEN THOUSAND PRESENT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 30. (Received July 1, at 1 p.m.) ■ Mayors in their chains of office, bemedalled ex-soldiers, clergymen, members of Parliament, hatless girls in khaki shorts, mothers carrying babies, young men addressing each other as “ Comrade,” children clasping tiny flags, all marching to music, converged on. Trafalgar Square from many parts of London for a peace mass meeting. Olive branches were tied to flag, poles, with inscribed banners • advocating peace.
, Ten thousand people occupied the square, and the meeting passed with acclamation a motion urging the Government to stop the armaments race, abolish the military and air forces, arid inaugurate international control of civil aviation.
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Evening Star, Issue 22069, 1 July 1935, Page 12
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117PEACE DEMONSTRATION Evening Star, Issue 22069, 1 July 1935, Page 12
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