White House police scattered parade of communists who were] shouting, carrying banners and denouncing the Administration's hand-Ting of things in general.
Slogans on the banners and shouted by the paraders were especially Girected against the presence of USS. Marine forces in Haiti and the recent Stimson note to Ru in connection with the Sino-Russian controversy.
More than 30 persons were arrested.
Upon learning of the arrests, President Hoover suggested that the} police release. the communists.
"A night in gaol," ho commented, only doing them the favour of bestowing a cheap martyrdom?
He characterized the marchers as] "misguided youths" and said that] they should be released and "sent) home to their parents."—United Press.
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