.ltPush-chair protest at embassy

The Times,
16 October 1968

Young children and babies in pushchairs were led round Grosvenor Square, yesterday by about 400 women protesting against the war in Vietnam - and, more specifically, against the jail sentence imposed on Dr. Benjamin Spock, the American child-care expert.
  
Vanessa Redgrave, the actress, mother of two, led a delegation into the American Embassy to meet embassy officials.
  
She was not marching because Dr. Spock was "great about babies", but because he was a person everyone knows "who has chosen to help people who are opposing the draft and who oppose the war in Vietnam".
  
Dr. Spock was sentenced to two years' imprisonment after being found guilty of conspiring to encouraging young men to evade call-up.  He is now on bail, pending appeal.
  
The march, which moved at pushchair speed round Grosvenor Square, was organized by the Ealing Medical Aid for Vietnam Committee.
  
Hundreds of protest letters in a bag were handed in at the embassy by the delegation, who besides Miss Redgrave were Miss Joan Lestor, Labour M.P. for Eton and Slough, Margaret Drabble, the novelist, Mrs. Louise Bick, wife of the American film producer Mr. Jerry Bick, and Mrs. Lorna Littlewood, a member of the organizing committee.  

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