Vol. 79/No. 13 April 13, 2015
April 13, 1990
LENASIA, South Africa — “This is a historic day. This is the first time the organization that is going to lead our people to freedom is being introduced to us here. And that is the African National Congress!” said a leader of the Transvaal Indian Congress in opening a rally of 10,000 here.Banned by the apartheid regime in 1960, the ANC has had to function as an underground and exile organization. Other anti-apartheid organizations and coalitions arose, which support the ANC and the Freedom Charter, the guiding document of the liberation struggle.
With the ANC now unbanned, these organizations are discussing the best way to reorganize the liberation movement inside South Africa. The mass rally here was organized so activists could hear the thinking of the ANC leadership on such questions.
April 12, 1965
If you feel the urgency of stopping the U.S. war of atrocity in Vietnam, you should join and build the April 17 March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam. Young and old, student and non-student, are being urged by the organizers of the March to pitch in to make this the largest and most effective demonstration possible.Growing numbers of Americans are expressing doubts about the war and a desire for a peaceful solution. A powerful March on Washington demanding an end to this war NOW will help mobilize that sentiment into a movement — a movement which, if it becomes powerful enough, can stay Johnson’s hand.
Every voice of protest must be heard now, and the best place to make your voice heard will be in Washington on Saturday, April 17, along with thousands of others.
April 13, 1940
The Allies and Germany have chosen in Norway the scene of their first great test of military strength.Between dawn of Monday, April 8, and Tuesday, April 9, Norway was attacked, by the Allies and then by Germany.
By nightfall of April 9, Norway itself was laid prostrate. German forces were already in possession of its capital and its chief ports. Allied forces were on the way in an effort to expel them.
The German forces came in to “protect” Norway against the Allies. The Allies moved to “protect” Norway from the Reich. Norway, which wanted protection from neither, was not consulted by either. It has become the victim of both. This is the fate that awaits the rest of the small states of Europe.
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