SUCCESSFUL EASTER DEMONSTRATION IN GERMANY
Frankfurt
The Easter demonstrations against nuclear arms were significantly larger this year than last. Some 145,000 persons in thirteen German cities participated -- 30,000 more than in 1965.
At mass meetings during the three-day period, Joan Baez, the American singer, was a popular attraction. At Essen, in the heart of the Ruhr, 6,000 turned out to hear her. In Frankfurt a hall that seats 2,000 was filled to the walls and thousands had tobe turned away with the words, "No more room!"
. The protest: songs ‘sung by Joan Baez, Dieter Suverkup and Franz Josef Degenhardt* ‘drew especially heavy applause.
tn Frankfurt on. ‘Raster Monday ; ‘a crowd of 10; O00 was ; taught by Joan Baez ‘to sing, "We shall overcome.
She got a big response from the crowd when she said: "T came to Germany with great apprehension. The people of both countries are. among the most disliked in the world. But q believe we have now-won the contest with* the war in Vietnam!" .
This example of practical internationalism == Americans and Germans joining in common protest against war and rearmament -- was a huge success.