As Britain relaxes its attitude toward aliens, preparations are far along to turn a large number of them out of detention camps soon, Ben Robertson, CBS correspondent, reported in a broadcast from London this morning. Most of the aliens were rounded up last Summer when invasion was feared daily and Britain was concentrating on making itself an island fortress.
“At present,” Robertson said, “27,000 aliens are in the camps here. Eight thousand already have been let loose. Of the rest, 4,000 are known dangerous. There are doubts about the remaining 15,000, but the Government has now adopted the principle of allowing freedom to any alien who is willing to fight for the Allied cause.”
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