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...Aldermaston...
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...
...their annual four-day protest march to London, Britain's ban-the-bomb Aldermaston Marchers were snugly camped out at Reading when down swooped Scotland Yard, looking terribly grim. Wot's this? demanded the sleuths, and went around seizing a curious little pamphlet entitled R.S.G.-6 from the marchers. It outlined British plans in the event of a nuclear attack, even pinpointed emergency centers of government in case London is destroyed-along with hints that the marchers might want to picket one such site along their route. Publisher: an outfit calling itself "Spies for Peace...
...capacity crowd at the open Tocsin meeting responded enthusiastically to speeches by Goldmark, Albert R. Meyer '63, and Gerald Holton, professor of Physics. After showing a film of the English "ban-the-bomb" march from London to Aldermaston in 1958, Goldmark remarked, "We are those people...