Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Bulletin
STARS IN OUR EYES
This is the title of a Midnight Matinee in aid of the Campaign which
will be held at the Royal Festival Hall shortly after the ending of
Nuclear Disarmament Week, on Monday, 21 st September, at 11 p.m.
The Matinee is being organised by the Women's Group of the Campaign,
with the help of J. B. Priestley. The programme will include stars of
stage, screen and radio Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Jill Balcon, Constance
Cummings, Cecil Day-Lewis, Gerard Hoffnung, Miles Malleson, Denis
Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Stanley Unwin and
others.
We hope that Groups will start right now organising coach parties and
that individual supporters will bring a group of friends. Some transport
home will be provided by London Transport.
Tickets will be available from the Royal Festival Hall and from the
Campaign Office at 143 Fleet Street, E.C.4, towards the end of the month,
at £1, 15s., 10s., 7s. 6d., 5s. and boxes (five people) at £6 5s. and £3
15s.
Leaflets with tear-off order forms for tickets will be available also
by the end of the month, and posters.
Trafalgar Square Rally
The final demonstration in London of Nuclear Disarmament Week will take
place on the day before the Matinee, on Sunday, 20th September, in
Trafalgar Square, at 4 p.m. It will be followed by a short march around
the West End and down the Strand and Fleet Street to St. Paul's Cathedral.
Bertrand Russell has agreed to be one of the speakers, weather permitting.
This will be the first time he has spoken in the Square.
As this will be mainly a London Demonstration (other Regions are
holding their final rallies on Saturday, 19th September) we hope that all
supporters in the Greater London area will make sure that the Square is
packed. Leaflets and posters advertising the Rally will be ready shortly.
MORE ABOUT THE WEEK
Nuclear Disarmament Week promises to be the biggest and most widespread
demonstration yet mounted by the Campaign. Hundreds of thousands of
leaflets and thousands of posters are now being overprinted with local
activities. Meetings will range from Cornwall to Aberdeen, from Swansea to
Great Yarmouth. Here are particulars of one or two activities which
arrived too late for the July Bulletin.
GREENWICH: A Petition to the Prime Minister will be brought up
by boat to Westminster Pier on Saturday, 12th September, for delivery to
Downing Street.
YORK: 'A Day of Preparation', taking the form of 24-hour watches
of prayer and meditation, from 8 a.m. on Friday, 11th September, to 8 a.m.
on Saturday, 12th September ,to be followed by a united Procession of
Witness on the Saturday afternoon.
SOUTH WALES: On the morning of Saturday, 19th September. there
will be Marches in the valleys. This will be followed [end of page 1]
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