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the national appeal for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (USSR) Committee. The object of the Committee is to organise and to help to finance a demonstration in the Red Square, Moscow, on November 6, 1961, to take place on the day preceding the anniversary march-past that com- memorates the 1917 Revolution.
I am hereby authorised to extend a formal in- vitation to Lord Russell, and to the Committee of One Hundred. Sharing, as we do, their impassioned and heartfelt concern at the terrible peril in which all mankind stands, we would wish them to repeat in Moscow their performance in London of Septem- ber 12. To facilitate such a venture we would be prepared to help to raise funds for air fares to Moscow and for the necessary Intourist arrangements for their reception on November 5, returning them to London on November 8.
We would also seek to make available appropriate leaflets in Russian, to be distributed in the Red Square on November 6 and 7, describing the crimi- nal nature of the Soviet nuclear tests and explaining fully that Mr. Khrushchev personally is a murderer, exactly as Lord Russell states that both President Kennedy and Mr. Macmillan are murderers.
In the event of any local difficulties, we would wish to contribute towards the cost of legal repre- sentation, either by a Soviet lawyer or by some prominent British lawyer such as Mr. D. N. Pritt, Mr. John Platt Mills, Mr. Geoffrey Bing or Mr. Sydney Silverman, should any or all of these gentle- men be prepared to act on Lord Russell's behalf.
Finally, as a gesture of our good faith and soli- darity of purpose, as part of our international cam- paign that the great squares of the world should unite, we would propose to hold a comparable de- monstration to take place simultaneously in Trafal- gar Square, London, offering to match any or all of Lord Russell's movement who would be sitting in
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