Hating the Huns Down in Wales on Saturday the disagreeable
Hate-the-Huns demonstration kicked off in Pembroke Dock at midday with Michael Foot's all-too-predictable attack on the Government's defence policy. Last year a similar demonstration was attacked by the townsfolk, but on Saturday, apart from some egg-throwing and booing, things were quiet, and the four hundred policemen on duty had an easy time. As the procession snaked round the town some teenagers danced along in front of Michael Foot, Leo Abse and Ivor Davies, chanting: `Go home, marchers! Up the Panzers!' The hate-filled reply from the column sent the seagulls scattering above the old grey streets. 'Polaris—out, out, out! Nazi bases—out, out, out! Yankee bases—out, out, out! Adenauer—out, out, out!' Among the CND and Communist Party banners the message of tk-a campaign committee was carried on scores tor' placards: '220 Nazi officers in NATO High Command. No Nazi invasion. NATO covers Nazi war plans.' Desmond Donnelly scarcely exaggerated when he described the demonstration as one which 'serves the ends of Soviet foreign. policy.' I talked to a dozen onlookers. Without exception they accepted, and even welcomed, the presence of West German troops at Castlemartin as representatives of the Atlantic Alliance. 'It's the Castlemartin Territorials from our own army we're frightened of, boyo,' said one of them jocularly, 'not the Panzers. They're well behaved.'
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