1988. február (17-31. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
The protest in Budapest expressing solidarity fór the Románián nation thus passed off peacefully unlike the demonstration organised in Warsaw by the recently re-formed Polish Socialist Party. All the participants there, about fifty people, were arrested by the police a fev minutes after the start of the protest. In Prague members of the Charter’77 civil rights movement expressed their solidarity to the peoples of Románia in a hunger strike. A number of them wanted to deliver letters of protest to the Románián Embassy bút they vere prevented from reaching the Embassy building by the Czech police. In Paris about tvo hundred people protested in front of the Románián Embassy. There vas alsó a demonstration at 12 noon by the Románián Embassy in London*s city centre. About sixty people appeared with flags and signs, and many of them sang a Románián patriotic song of the last century. This song was heard last year in the streets of Brasov sung by vorkers, it begins - with words nőt entirely unfamiliar to Hungarians "Get to your feet Romanians.•.•" Hungarians living in London alsó took part in this protest. The group carrying "Hungárián October" emblems held signs on vhich the following slogans appeared: "Rights fór Everybody, Rights fór the Nationalitiesi", "Hungarians-Romániáns Unité Against Dictatorshipi", and a drawing on which there was a Germán flag with the date 1953, the Hungárián colours and 1956, the Czech tricolour and 1968 and finally the Románián national colours with the inscription "When?".- 2 £«?
