| Main Performers | Mr L S Amery (Presiding),
Count E Raczynski,
Mgr. Bela Varga (President, Hungarian National Council),
Mr Randolph Churchill,
Lady Violet Bonham Carter,
Mr Beddington Behrens - speakers |
| Set List | Speeches,
Resolution (No arrangements between the Western Powers and the Soviet Unnion which accepted the continued enslavement of the peoples f Central and Eastern Europe could lead to a true and lasting peace) |
| Performance Notes | The meeting was the culmination of a conference held in London by the Movement's Central and Estern Commission. It discussed the problems which might face countries under Russian domination when they became 'free'. A press conference was held at the Hal lbefore the meeting presided by Mr Beddington Behrens.
"RESISTANCE TO RUSSIA BEHIND IRON CURTAIN.
LONDON MEETING.
...Lady Violet Bonham Carter said that 2,000 people every month risked death, recapture and torture to escape from the Iron Curtain.
"Freedom, like peace, is indivisible. No Iron Curtain can split it or divide the essential unity between East and West Europe." Together we had a common frontier to defend, a great tradition of freedom, decency and tolerance.
Generations of men and women gave their lves to its mkaing and keeping. We should not betray it or them or our destiny to-day.
About 20 members of the Union Movement interrupted the meeting for several minues during the speech by Count Raczynski, shouting "Mosley for Europe." A large quantity of leaflets containing a speech by Sir Oswald Mosley were thrown from a gallery.
Mr L S Amery, presiding, called through the microphone: "Stop this unmannerly interruption." Soon afterwards the Union members were escorted from the hall by stewards..."
(The Daily Telegraph, 25 January 1952) |