THE ALIENS SCANDAL
Sirt,—I see with deep gratification that a review as influential as The Spectator has taken up the cause of genuine refugees who have recently been subjected to a treatment that must be described as unjustifiable.
It may be of interest to you to learn that internment has also been decreed in the case of friendly aliens. Fifty-one Sudeten-German Social Democratic refugees, who had escaped from Belgium, were interned "by mistake" on their arrival in this country. Some of them were imprisoned and one member of the group was even de- ported. It is characteristic that these measures were taken in spite of the fact that the Home Office had already decided in principle on the grant of permits to enter Great Britain for the fifty-one persons concerned some time before the invasion of Belgium began.
As all our attempts to obtain the release of these people, who are deprived of their liberty without the least legal justification, have failed, I can but hope that this appeal to the Press to take note of the scandalous incident may be successfuL—Yours faithfully, • 16 Laurel Gardens, London, N.W.1.
WENZEL JAKSCFI.
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