- Title: DENMARK: DEMONSTRATORS IN COPENHAGEN PROTEST AT UNITED STATES ACTION IN VIETNAM.
- Date: 11th February 1965
- Summary: DEMONSTRATORS WITH PLACARDS AND SCUFFLING WITH POLICE. Initials DE/VS/JF/EEH EDITORS: WE REFER YOU ALSO TO THE FOLLOWING STORIES SERVICED TO DAY (FEB 11). 1441/65 - NEW DELHI'S COMMUNIST PARTY DEMONSTRATES AGAINST U.S. RAIDS ON NORTH VIETNAM. 1450/65 - PEKING: MAMMOTH DEMONSTRATION AGAINST U.S. ACTION IN NORTH VIETNAM. Script is copyright Reuters Limit
- Embargoed: 26th February 1965 12:00
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- Location: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
- Country: Denmark
- Reuters ID: LVA615362O4IMWMJT8IEY6AU0H84
- Story Text: SCUFFLING BROKE OUT BETWEEN POLICE AND DEMONSTRATORS IN COPENHAGEN YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY) WHEN A CROWD OF ABOUT 200 PEOPLE GATHERED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY TO PROTEST AT AMERICAN ACTION IN VIETNAM.
MANY OF THE DEMONSTRATORS CARRIED PLACARDS CONDEMNING THE UNITED STATES AIR RAIDS IN NORTH VIETNAM, AND SOME IDENTIFIED PRESIDENT JOHNSON WITH HITLER AND MUSSOLINI. LEADERS OF THE DEMONSTRATION SPOKE THROUGH LOUDSPEAKERS TO THE CROWD.
A NOTE ADDRESSED TO THE AMBASSADOR WAS HANDED IN AT THE DOOR OF THE EMBASSY.
POLICE AND DEMONSTRATORS CLASHED WHEN POLICEMEN TRIED TO SEIZE SOME OF THE PLACARDS WHICH CARRIED SLOGANS SUCH AS "JOHNSON IS A MURDERER" AND "YANKEE GO HOME".
AFTER SOME MINUTES THE DEMONSTRATORS DISPERSED...
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