Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-23
By the Associated Press

The assassination OF PreSi-
dent Kennedy caused shock
and grief throughout the world
The news Of the Presidents
death reached Europe at night
and the Far East in the pre-
dawn hours. Everywhere the
immediate reaction was disbe-
lief. Then shock, grief and
tears.
Stunned heads of state
some weeping-cabled condo
lences to the United States. Or
dered flags flown at half staff
and declared official periods Of
mourning.
Parliaments adjourned. Bust
ness Sctivities came to a halt.
Bars closed. Church bells tolled
and people wept.
They wept in London and
Moscow and Tokyo. Tears came
to the eyes of American els
in the jungles of South Wet
Nam. A Russian girl cried in
Moscow's Snow-covered Gorky
street.
A news vendor wept on
Vienna's Mariahilfer StraSse.
So did Trans Empress Farah
at Teheran Airport, and q gray
haired woman in London. Vene-
zuela's President Romulo Be-
tancourt. a blues singer in
Paris and many Of the Ambas-
sadorS at the United Nations
headquarters in New York.
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Reports reaching Vienna
from East European Soviet
bloc nations also told Of
men and women weeping I'M
.shamedly.
Moscow radio played funeral
music. Its English language
broadcastS beamed to North
America dispensed with its
usual propaganda.
Communist China, which
repeatedly had described Mr..
Kennedy as "a war-mongering
imperialist" bent on conquer
ing the world. reported the
assassination without COM
ment.
Premier Krushchev cut short
q visit to Kiev and rushed back
to Moscow to pay his personal
respects to United States Am
,bassador Fey D. Kohler. The
Soviet Premier sent a telegram
to President johnson and he
and Mrs. KhruShchev also sent
their condolences to Mrs. Ken
nedy.
Calls Swamp legations
Outside the United States
Embassy in Moscow, a quiet
crowd gathered undisturbed by
Soviet guards who normally do
not permit anyone to congre-
gate at foreign legations.
Radio and televiSion stations
In Moscow and other Soviet
bloc capitals broke into their
regular programs to flash bull
lettnS Of the assassination.
United States legations were
swamped with calls Of SYM
patty.
The Soviet Communist news
paper Pravda replate6 It's front
page and paid tribute to Mr..
Kennedy as an outstanding
American statesman.
In London, Prime Minister
Sir Alec Douglas Home was
one of more than 5000 per-
sons who attended a requiem
mass for Mr.. Kennedy at the
Roman Catholic Cathedral of
Westminster today. The Prime
Minister is a member Of the
Church Of England.
So great was the crush in
that church that many were
unable to find seats and knelt
in the aisles., ,..
Pope HonorS Kennedy
Pope Paul vi dedicated his
morning mass to Mr.. Kennedy
and gave him dissolution at a
memorial service. The Pope
prayed last night 'that the
sacrifice of John Kennedy
may advance the cause which
he promoted and defended
for the freedom of peoples and
the peace Of the world"
The death of Mr.. Kennedy
the first Roman Catholic tc
reach the White House, plunged
Vatican City into deep mourn.
ing. Its yellow and white ban
ners were flown at half staff
the first time that has beer
done for a chief of state Other
than a Pope.
Pope Paul, in an unusual &C.
ton. asked that Mr.. Kennedy
be remembered in the memorial
mass in St, Peters Basilica fol
prelates who have died in the