TOKYO RALLY SCHEDULED AGAINST -VIETNAM WAR
Some 200 top officials of the Socialist party and leading Japanese labor figures met at Miyakesaka April 9 to protest U.S. aggression against North Vietnam.
The meeting adopted a resolution to stage a national rally in Tokyo April 26 to protest "U.S. aggression in Vietnam and establish peace in Asia." It was expected. that some 110,000 persons would turn out for the rally.
Participants in the rally delivered notes to Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and to the U.S. embassy to be forwarded to President Johnson, - : The note to Sato asked the Japanese government to take immediate steps for a peaceful solution of the Vietnam dispute,
- Both notes called for suspension of military operations in Vietnam and the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
The British, French, South Vietnamese, Soviet, Canadian and Indian embassies were also visited and asked to co-operate in ending the war,
VIETNAM WAR