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Braving heavy rain, 3,000 people gathered at Vancou-
fo. Saturday, April 15 to hear speakers demand
Se letnam war. The huge crowd converged on

Square after marching three-abreast in one of
Peace parades this city has ever seen.

son — protest U.S, aggression
in Vietnam,” “Prime Minister —
speak out now against bombing.”

NDP national leader T.C.
Douglas told the huge rally that
“President Johnson is shooting
craps with the survival of the
human race if he continues to
escalate the war in Vietnam.”
He said the Vietnam question
was the greatest moral issue of
our time and called on everyone
to speak out,

Douglas said that what is hap-
pening in Vietnam is not a de-
fence of freedom but an attempt
to carry on the colonial exploita-
tion left behind by the French,
“This is not a war for freedom,
people only deceive themselves
if they think it is. Behind the
American forces come the big
landlords to take back the land
from the peasants,”

The NDP leader, amid tre-
mendous applause, called on Can-
adians to tell Ottawa to Speak
out in protest against the
slaughter in Vietnam. “We must
tell the U,S. government that we

are dismayed and unhappy about,

the continued escalation.”

See VIETNAM, pg. 12

OF VIETNA

—City photos G. Legebokoff
VANCOUVER PARADE . . . coming over Granville Bridge

NEW YORK... ‘Stop this lousy war’ says big sign:

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