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The Aldermaston marches were anti-nuclear weapons demonstrations in the 1950s and 1960s, taking place on Easter weekend between the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, and London, over a distance of fifty-two miles, or roughly 83 km. At their height in the early 1960s they attracted tens of thousands of people and were the highlight of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) calendar. The first major Aldermaston march at Easter (4–7 April), 1958, was organised by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) and supported by the recently formed CND. Several thousand people marched for four days from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Establishment to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons.〔(A brief history of CND )〕 Hugh Brock, one of the organisers, records that he was one of thirty-five people to have marched to Aldermaston six years before in 1952 as part of Operation Gandhi.〔Brock, Hugh, "Marching to Aldermaston – ten years ago!", ''Sanity'', Good Friday, 1962〕 From 1959 an annual Easter march from Aldermaston to London was organised by CND. By reversing the direction form the march they distinguished their campaign, directed at the seat of power, from the DAC's direct action campaign, directed at local nuclear bases. On the 1963 Aldermaston march, a group calling itself Spies for Peace distributed leaflets as the march passed a secret government establishment, RSG 6. A large group, led by Peter Cadogan (an activist in the direct-action Committee of 100), left the march, against the wishes of the CND leadership, to demonstrate at RSG 6. Later, when the march reached London, there were disorderly demonstrations in which anarchists were prominent. At Easter 1964 there was only a one-day march in London, partly because of the events of 1963 and partly because the logistics of the march, which, grown beyond all expectation, had exhausted the organisers.〔John Minnion and Philip Bolsover (eds.) ''The CND Story'', Alison and Busby, 1983, ISBN 0-85031-487-9〕 In 1965 there was a two-day march from High Wycombe. In 1972 and 2004 there were revivals of the Aldermaston march in the original direction. ==Participants== The Aldermaston March Committee for the first march comprised Hugh Brock, Pat Arrowsmith and Michael Randle from DAC plus Frank Allaun MP and Walter Wolfgang from the Labour H-Bomb Campaign. The committee was assisted by nonviolent theorist Gene Sharp though he never became a member of the committee itself. * Peggy Duff organised subsequent Aldermaston Marches 1959–1963. * Sidney Hinkes was involved in the first Aldermaston March, * Walter Wolfgang participated in the first Aldermaston March and led a revival of the march in 1972. * Reg Freeson was one of five Labour MPs on the first Aldermaston March. * Lindsay Anderson made the documentary ''(March to Aldermaston )'' (1958).〔French, Philip (5 December 2004) ("O difficult man!" ) ''Guardian.co.uk'' (Retrieved: 22 February 2010)〕 * Eric Idle was a keen supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and participated in the Aldermaston March. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aldermaston Marches」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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