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TOCSIN will consider problems of policy and transportation tonight at a public meeting scheduled for 2 Divinity Ave. at 8:00 p.m. Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, will comment on the forthcoming demonstration in Washington, and a film of England's famous Aldermaston March will be shown. TOCSIN expects over 6,000 people from Eastern universities to participate in the walk February...
...annual rite of spring in Britain is fast becoming the Aldermaston march. For the fourth Easter in a row, thousands of Britons turned out to hike 54 miles from the site of Britain's nuclear weapons research headquarters to rally in London's Trafalgar Square, though many cut in only for the last few miles. Parents pushing baby carriages, barefoot teenagers, businessmen and clergymen, there were more marchers than ever before-some 14,000-and this year another batch began its assault on London from another direction, outside the gates at Wethersfield, site of a U.S. Air Force...
...that by giving up the bomb, Britain would be spared in case of war. Others argue that even surrender is preferable to extinction ("I would rather be Red than dead"). The Manchester Guardian's David Marquand has called the ban-the-bombers "the new blimps." "The nationalism of Aldermaston," wrote Marquand, "is uncannily like that of Colonel Blimp. One of the main unilateralist arguments is that if Britain ceased to rely on nuclear weapons, other countries would be obliged to follow suit. That argument could only take root in a country which has not yet realized...
Banning the bomb has become an outdoor sport that threatens to surpass bird watching in Britain. On Good Friday last year, 20,000 demonstrators gathered at Britain's atomic-weapons research center at Aldermaston, carrying knapsacks and pushing prams; they thoroughly snarled Easter-weekend traffic as they made their annual trek 54 miles east to London, winding up for a 100,000-man rally beneath the stern statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Last week the ban-the-bombers turned their attention to Holy Loch, a tiny inlet on Scotland's Firth of Clyde...
...movement were burgeoning worldwide. In West Germany the organization was the Fight Against Atomic Death. In Japan it was the Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. In London the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament mustered up a 50-mile protest march to Britain's atomic-weapons research center at Aldermaston. The marchers' inspiration, dinned in mass meetings and magazine articles, was the view of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Writer Philip Toynbee, son of the famed historian, that nuclear disarmament will probably bring Communist domination, but that domination is preferable to the prospect of nuclear war. The London Daily Telegraph...