The aliens problem once more. On the notorious camp at
Huyton, near Liverpool, a good deal has been written at one time and another, but too little has been said about the com- bination of cruelty and folly involved in interning a minority of anti-Nazi refugees—almost all of them placed by their tribunals in the C, or highest, class—with a blatant and defiant Nazi majority. I hope some searching questions will be put to the Home Secretary about this when Parliament reassembles, for there is ample evidence that gross intimidation on the part of the Nazis is going on. Some of the minority are said to be Communists. That may or may not be so. What is certain is that they ardently desire the defeat of German Nazism, which is the best of reasons for not associating them with avowed Nazis—Germans who happened to be in this country when the war broke out, and are under the protection of the Swiss Legation, which now represents German interests here— who as ardently desire a German victory.
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