Mich. Quakers Hold Silent Peace Vigil

Twenty-three people stood silently at Grand Circus park on Saturday March 18 to indicate their support of the Phoenix, a peace ship sailing to North Vietnam.

The vigil was called by the American Friends Meeting (100 St. Aubin) to publicize the voyage of the Phoenix, which left Hiroshima under sail for Haiphong. Captained by Earle Roberts, the Phoenix is a fifty foot sailing ship which in 1958 was sailed into the Eniwetok nuclear test area by the captain and his family.

This time, the ship is carrying medical supplies to the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam for the relief of sickness and suffering caused by United States bombing.

Quakers throughout the country have been contributing nearly $1,000 each week to aid the Vietnamese North and South, who have been victimized by the United States military presence.

The first delivery of funds, destined for Vietnamese aid, to Canadians in the Detroit area will take place on the Ambassador Bridge on April 8.

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See Fifth Estate’s Vietnam Resource Page.