is Opinion About Aliens Ignored It is amazing that Sir
John Anderson and other members the Government who are associated with him in the handling the aliens question should continue to be indifferent to public inion here and unaware of the incalculable harm that is being ne to our good name abroad. The niggardly way in Inch the authorities are releasing one by one from internment few of the long-standing friends of this country whilst others e kept virtually in prison is causing disgust in Britain and dignation among foreign correspondents who have been deavouring to present the British case in a favourable light. Me London correspondents of leading newspapers in neutral uropcan countries have recently reported the damaging im- ession created abroad by the spirit and methods of the refugee ternments. They report that millions of sympathisers with ritain's case begin to doubt whether British ideals of humanity d justice still prevail. At the beginning we had hoped that e mistakes were due to excess of zeal prompted by the military thorities, and that there would be a radical change of method hen the Home Office took full responsibility. There has been such change. The present system must not continue.
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