I am sorry to observe a quite unwonted note of
intolerance creeping into the leader-columns of the Sunday Times. Last Sunday that admirable and influential journal called on the Government to silence out of hand any German or Austrian refugee who ventures to express himself in print on subjects which Englishmen are discussing in speech and print daily. One of them has disclaimed the wish to be identified with any move- ment for the restoration of Austria. "This," says the Sunday Times fuhreristically, "must stop." Another is said to disagree with Article VIII of the Atlantic Charter. So the Sunday Times " takes this opportunity of requesting the Government to make it clear that there is no room here for any guest who works against our declared national policy." If these people, in other words, think they have escaped from Nazism to a country where speech is free, the sooner they are taught their mistake the better.
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