Evening star., 1961-09-18
Pocifist Lowbreokers in Britain
Are Fined, jailed by Hundreds

LONDON, Sept. 1S (AP).-
Militant British pacifists by
the hundreds filed through IL
cosrtrooms today to pay the
penalty for breaking the law
in their mass protests against
nuclear weapons.
a force of 1000 police early
today completed the job of
carting off to jail 1914 persons
who attempted to stage a rally
in London't Trafalgar Square
and then march on Parliament.
At Dunoon, in Scotland, 315
were arrested in two days of
an attempted sit-down on
roads to the United States mis-
sile submarine base in Holy
Loeb.
Several famous persons went
to jail in the fleet of police
trucks and buses.
Playwright Included
Among them was playwright
John Osborne, whose Look
Back in Anger" was q stage
and screen success. He pleaded
guilty to defying a police ban
against the Trafalgar assembly
and was fined FL ($2.80). He
told the court he had nothing
to say.
Others who went to jail in
cluded playwright Shelagh De-
laney; actress Vanessa Red
grave, daughter Of Sir Michael
Redgrave; a Labor Member Of
Parliament, Fenner Brockway,
and Canon John Collins, pre-
ceptor of st. Paul's Cathedral
and a leader in the antibomb
movement.
They followed to jail Earl
Bertrand Russell, the 89-year-
old philosopher -pacifist, who
completed a seven-day sentence
in Jail today for refusing to
promise to keep the peace at
the Trafalgar rally. His wife,
who did a similar stretch, also
was freed.
Russell Aide Sentenced
At Dunoon, Miss Pat Arrow
smith, a leading member of
Ford Russell's antinuclear Com
mittee Of 100, was sentenced to
three months in jail because
she was a second offender, and
was fined E7 ($19.60).
Fines for other offenders at
Dunoon ranged from E3 to
els ($8.40 to $42).
In London, another 10 courts
processed $50 offenders and
generally were more lenient.
The fines ranged from 81
to e. and the offenders were
given a week to settle up. An
other $50 offenders were freed
on bail and will be dealt with
later.
Before being freed from his
Jail cell, Lord Russell issued a
statement calling for an inter-
hational resistance movement
against nuclear weapons.
Demands Uprising
I'VE call upon people every
where to rise against this mon
strous tyranny" his statement
said. I'VE call upon scientists
to refuse to work on nuclear
weapons.
1--WE call upon workers to
black (boycott) all work con-
,nected with them and to use.
their industrial strength in the
struggle for life.
I'VE will not tolerate the in
cineration of human beings be-
cause governments are occu-
pied with idiotic matters of
prestige"
The London demonstrators
had planned to start their
rally in Trafalgar Square and
then march to Parliament
Square, about a mile along
Whitehall. When heavily REIN
forced patrols Of police barred
their way they sat down in
Ithe square on the roads and
kidewalks.
Carried Off Bodily
Police had to carry them
bodily off to the fleets of
waiting buses, trucks and
police vans. Many of the men
were unceremoniously dragged
through puddles. The women
were carried.
The rally petered out after
midnight when 200 demonStra-
tors again began a march on
Parliament. Police wheeled in
a fresh detachment of REIN
forcements which had been
held in reserve. Mounted police
rode up and the final rally by
the demonstrators was turned
back.
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