Word: aldermaston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aldermaston...
...pleasure to be quoted in justification of your nasty little report on the last Aldermaston March [April 26]. It is true that I have been involved with C.N.D. since its inception. It is equally true that I remain so. It is because of my continuing belief in what C.N.D. stands for that I deplore the aberrations that provide opportunities for publications like TIME to emphasize the fringe and ignore the basic meaning...
...would have been fairer to me, and more generous to tens of thousands of decent people, if you had recalled the gist of my piece, which was that the true spirit of Aldermaston and C.N.D. will survive all its snide misinterpretations, whether by anarchists from within or TIME from without...
Since 1958, when the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament staged the first Aldermaston March, its 52-mile Easter parade has turned into Britain's biggest lunatic fringe benefit. Beardies and weirdies soon stole the spotlight from the pacifist parsons and left-wing Laborites who started the ban-the-bomb movement...
Their disillusionment was the result of a stratagem that struck even the tolerant British as a disloyal act. Even before the marchers left Aldermaston, there appeared copies of a crudely mimeographed, twelve-page document headed: DANGER! OFFICIAL SECRET. Inside, its anonymous authors declared: "We are Spies for Peace. We have decided to publish an Official Secret. There are thousands more secrets in captivity. This is not the only one we shall release." The information it contained was, in fact, highly classified: the locations, code names and telephone numbers of twelve Regional Seats of Government from which British authorities would...