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American Friends Service Committee — Part 4
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notretions, New York City, Aucust 6,
x rican Friends Service Commiivtec
ana Cthor Facifist Groups
v in also urted thet the United Stctes
remove its forces fuom South Vietnin, and stated that tris
As a civil war. He Livened the problems cf the people of
*. Len and 5 dford~ -Stuyvesant, and
that th eonie
an Vietnam is that the people
nrer ve being without dignity and boing
He aleo made references to brutality of the New
Yor City police 4n the licgre situcticn and that their
ghoy of force in certain situstions could easily cause
a riot, He stated that on the dute of the bombing of
Hiroshima he wes serving a prison sentence of three years
at Lewisburg for refusing to participate in action sush
as this bombing. Ve urged those in the crowd to refuse
to participate in future actions such as the bombing of
Hiroshima,
Miyoko Matsubara, who was badly burned by the
1945 bomb explosion at Hisoshims, spoke in Japanese which
was immediately transletcd, concerning some of her experiencer
in relation to the explosion.
During the emonstretion | a statement of Sensvoxr Wayne
Morse which hac been written for this demonstration ues
a ast stated n pa “a a eatcl yulere of a
read, It stated in pars that the preeent rulere South
Vietnam could not “lonz continue the civil wer unless the War
were expundéd.
The crowd | sc urged to send telegrams to Senator
Morse thanking hin .or his opinions Which he sent to is
demonstzation, and elso telecsrams were urged to be sent to
other congressmen urging the United States withdraw from
Vietnam.
Some of the signs observed at the above demonstrations
had the following messages:
"Hiroshima Memorial 1964" ~ Student Peace Union
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