Re ¢ — oes Rational ~ Month ~ tion of ~ €visory IN_ TRAFALGAR SQUARE a VOL. 20, n < ae ) O. 14 _PRIDAY, APRIL VANCOUVER, B.C. ep 0c 7, 1961 Soviets propose plan for early end to Action to stop the figh Laos crisis ting in Laos appeared immi- a 4s the Pacific Tribune went to press despite last nute military action by the pro-U.S. forces. oy week the Soviet Union Satie in a note to Britain Sein he two governments 8 Call for a cease-fire, the -» COnvening of an inter- Conference -early this im Cambodia. The So- te also asked resump- the International Sup- Commission which in- pr Ng ee ouver Labor Council ; ideq Tuesday to hold a ej chee and public meeting on invite “aya River ‘and has eneral A. G. Mc- Naughton, Ay? Go Me Sn : ee Seminar and meeting for a is tentatively scheduled thrash 29 is designed to Cut a firm policy for abo Con ©n development of the ~~Umbia River, i sae Naugrecition to General Mc- wil a council Mr. Nash of. Commission, aie mew, dean or *9 engineers, The Will be voc tine in the ‘evening |‘ although a to the public, and) _the council did not ae Is expected that Ne aforementioned People wil] speak. = Govern-| the B.C.|§ and Mr.|§ of B.C.) @ cludes Canada, Poland and India. The Soviet note recalled that. the Soviet Government to be a priority aim in a state- ment made to the British Am- bassador as long ago as mid- February. Meanwhile, this week Chin- ese Foreign Minister Chen et said in Indonesia that China had taken no part in the Laos fighting but that if SEATO de- cided to interfere in the Lao- tian civil war China would send troops to Laos if request- ed by Prince Souvanna declared a cease-fire in Laos! UGE RALLY IN NDS NUCLEAR BAN TAIN (Special to the Pacific Tribune) LONDON-As the hands-of Big Ben:stood at exactly 2:30 p.m. the two Easter marches against the H-bomb and the bases joined in Parliament Square Monday to a roar of cheering and marched together for a rally in Trafalgar Square, attended by an estimated 100,000 people. Many more marched than last year. Canon Collins, chair- man of Campaign for Nuclear | Disarmament, put the number in the parade at 40,000. Frank Cousins, leading trade union- ist, said: “‘Last year this was called the best demonstration for 50 years. It is surpassed| the Although many hundreds of marchers left to catch trains home, the double column was still coming in, filling up the Square. At 4:45 p.m. it seemed all places were taken, includ-| ing the bowls at the top of Trafalgar Square. foun- today,—despite the weather.| tains. Why? Because this is a place of sanity.” The -general opinion. was that the total taking part throughout the afternoon. was well up on last year, when police estimated that 100,000 were in and around _ the Square. It was a deeply dramatic moment as the heads of the marches and Aldermaston joined up. The two columns marched side by side up Whitehall to the massed singing of “Do not heed the men of war, ban the bomb for evermore.” Petitioning on city streets April 14-15 Vancouver citizens will have an opportunity to sign Dr. Linus Pauling’s petition against nuclear weapons on city streets Friday and Saturday, April 14-15. The B.C. Peace Council is sponsoring the mass street petitioning and is appealing to the public to join in this action for peace. Council offices at Rm. 414 Shelly Bldg., 119 West Pender Street, will be open Friday night from 5 p.m. on and from 10 a.m. on Saturday. Dr. Pauling’s petition is being circulated throughout the world and will be presented to the United Nations shortly after April 15. Those who have not yet signed it can do so by con- tacting the B.C. Peace Council offices. Copies of the peti- tion are also available there. from Wethersfield| | Nearly two hours after the | head of the column had en- {tered the Square, the final | contingents were still march- ing in, The last of the march- ers heard no more than the last five minutes of laborite Michael Foot’s speech. which predicted a “great victory | against the nuclear strategy.” Canon Collins opened the rally with a welcome to the foot-weary marchers after their 53-mile treks... He then read the Aldermaston Mani- festo — “Living Without the Bomb” — which appealed for “disengagement in Europe and of nuclear weapons and bases.” It went on: “We . cannot leave the task of peace-mak- ing to political leaders, offi- cials and Service chiefs of the nuclear powers. The voices of people everywhere, the peo- ple who in the end pay for all, must be heard.” Speakers at the rally in addi- tion to Canon Collins, Frank Cousins, Michael Foot includ- ed Hans Werner Richter, former president of the Euro- pean Federation Against Nuc- lear Arms, Lord Bertrand Russell and trade _ unionist John Horner. Phouma’s legal government. Photo shows some of t I as they entered Vancouver's meeting. Many mare he peace marchers last Saturday city hall grounds for a mass hers carried the emblem of the British marchers. Banner read “Peace on Earth—lLet Canada Lead.” See story of march on page 3. wound up the rally and which , for the creation of zones free