MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION

Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1949, Page 5

MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION

(N.Z.P.A.-

—Reuter,

Aggressive Policy 0f West Deiiounced By Russia

, Coyyriaht)

Received Monday, 9,50 a,m. LONDON, May 1. Trade unipnists and wprker^ throughout Europe today celebrated May Pay with demonstrations, .narches and speeches. Throughout Eastern Europe Government "leader.s reviewed the parades. Marshal Stalin stood for several hours on top of Lenin's Mausoleum, .n the Red Square, reviewing a par-^ ade of more than 1,000,000 people, The theme of this year's May Day demonstration, dominating the orr= der of the day read out by Marshal Alexander Vashilevsky, Soviet Armed Forces Minister, and repeat3d in slogans throughout the city and the banners carried by the de.nonstrators, was that the Red Army would never be used for tggression. The order of the day declared that the "ruling circles in America" vanted a new war and that the North Atlantic Pact showed that his aggressive policy was directed against the U.S.S.R. and the oeople's democracies, "but these ^orts of the warmongers will be in vain." Marshal Stalin's son, MajorGeneral Vassily Stalin, led the air barade over the Red Square and he aircraft included bombers and i large number of jet pl&nes of a new type. About 200,000 took part in demontrations in Prague. President Gottvald reviewed ihe military and uvilian parade. He said that the Darade demonstrated the Czech teople's solidarity with the progressive forces of the world in the 'fight aganst the new warmongers."