July 9, 1971
Thousands of homosexual men and women participated in gay pride demonstrations over the June 26-27 weekend, marking the second anniversary of te June 1969 Stonewall uprising when Greenwich Village gays fought back massively for the first time against police harassment.

The demonstrations were larger than last year's in both New York and Los Angeles, and actions also occurred this year in Chicago and a number of smaller cities.

The largest demonstration was the Christopher Street Liberation Day march and gay-in in New York City. The march began from Christopher Street at 2 p.m. with between 5,000 and 10,000 people, by the time the first contingents began streaming into the Central Park Sheep meadow two hours later, the size had swelled to at least 20,000.

Banners identified groups from New York and other cities, including Hartford and Bridgeport, Conn.; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Md.; Ithaca, Albany and Syracuse, N.Y.; Delaware; Ohio; Canada and other places.<

The march capped a week of gay liberation activities.

July 6, 1946
On June 28 came an announcement by Acting Secretary of State Acheson that United States marines will be held in China. This was the official response to last week's demonstration of 100,000 Chinese in Shanghai who carried placards reading: U.S. Army - Go Back to Your Home Sweet Home," "Down With U.S. Dollar Diplomacy," and "Americans, Don't Participate in the Chinese Civil War."

Acheson reached a new high in brazen effrontery by "explaining" that American boys are being held thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean to guard "supply lines from coast producing areas to the great coastal cities, an essential service that should continue."

American troops right now are protecting the holdings of the Anglo-American imperialists in China.

Wall Street has more ambitious plans in China than simply clearing the Chinese away from the flag of Standard Oil and the other companies. Wall Street is backing up Chiang Kai-shek. This reactionary regime would collapse overnight if American troops were withdrawn.

Wall Street considers China one of the great prizes of the Second World War. Its resources are among the richest in the world.  
 
 
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