THE ALIENS SCANDAL
Sra,—I have lately learned of an occurrence which shocks me, and which I cannot but think will shock your readers.
An old German gentleman of about 70, a Class C refugee of the strongest pro-British sympathy conceivable, who had been interned, was released about a fortnight ago on grolinds of age and ill-health. He reached home in a state of nervous collapse, and is being looked after by his wife and daughter. Before leaving the internment camp he was made to sign a number of papers, which he was not allowed time to read, and which he supposed to be trifling formalities. The police have since informed him that one of these was an undertaking not to live in his home, which is in the Eastern counties, and that another was an undertaking not to reveal the conditions in the camp and the treatment he had r eceived there. He is therefore peremp- torily required to leave the home where he was just beginning to Ile himself again, and in his unhappy state of health to seek shelter amongst strangers
Surely most of us, if told even a few months ago that a man would be deprived of the ordinary liberties of living in his home and telling his friends of his experiences, by documents which he was compelled to sign unread, would have replied that this was inconceivable in England, and that it could only be Nazi Germany that was being described.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
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