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Improvement in Britain’s Treatment of Aliens Forecast

July 14, 1940
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The entire question of handling the refugee problem is now under “close consideration,” Major Clement R. Attlee revealed in the House of Commons today in replying to demands voiced in Commons for the appointment of a single minister to handle the whole problem.

The press campaign against the wholesale internment policy has been spurred by the Commons debate. The Manchester Guardian predicted today that “radical improvements” would follow, while the Daily Herald asserted that the “internment craze” was being carried to “cowardly lengths.”

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