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About 4,000 people took part in the demonstration, which was against the money agreement and policies depending on weapons of mass destruction. It had been timed to coincide with the expected arrival in Glasgow of the Polaris weapon.
Kevin Woodard,49 president of the Committee of 100,80 yesterday described Saturday's sit-down demonstration outside the Ministry of Defense as only "a dress rehearsal" for further civil disobedience.No one was arrested on Saturday, and Lord Russell said of this yesterday:
"Other actions we take may be such as the authorities cannot tolerate. We do not want for ever to be tolerated by the police. Our movement depends for its success on an immense public opinion and we cannot create that unless we rouse the authorities to more action than they took yesterday."The Rev. Michael Scott, who with Lord and Lady Russell, Sir Herbert Read, and the Scottish poet Hugh McDiarmid, headed the demonstration, said that future demonstrations would be "more active", and Mr. Randle, the secretary, said: "If by our action we hold up work at such places as Alder Aston the authorities could not ignore us."
Lord Russell said that the Committee at present had no definite plans for future demonstrations but there would certainly be others. 

He added:
"The object of our action is to cause the population of Britain to know that the policy being pursued by the Government is likely to lead to the extermination of every single inhabitant." Saturday's demonstration showed there was "a great deal of popular sympathy with us."
Most of the demonstrators on Saturday had marched from Marble Arch to Trafalgar Square  for a rally before the protest began. It was clear from the banners that people had come from many parts of the country. Lord Russell told them their cause was "luminous and irrefutable." If it were clearly understood not one person in a hundred would oppose them.
The demonstrators moved quietly down Whitehall and round the corner a hollow square of police protected the main door of the Ministry of Defence. The leaders sat down when they reached the unmoving policemen and all behind followed suit, stretching round three sides of the building. The only discord came from a small group of Empire Loyalists with banners "Keep Britain's money", an insecticide and one egg. They did not stay for long.
Lord Russell with the other leaders moved forward to nail a message on the Ministry's door. A self-conscious civil servant on the steps seemed to be saying that the nail would be bad for the door. But anxious to cooperate, he had somebody fetch free tape and so the deed was done. All the leaders went back to the pavement, a Civil Service arm stretched round the door and took the notice in.
Shortly before six o'clock Lord and Lady Russell got up. It was dark and getting cold and everybody moved off, quietly satisfied.

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Charles B.