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Morrison Reassures Refugees on Right to Protest Treatment

March 2, 1941
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Aliens have the fullest right to make complaints, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison declared in Commons yesterday when asked by Geoffrey Mander, Liberal, to reassure refugees returned from Canada who had been threatened by minor officials with reinterment if they complained of conditions during internment and during their passage on the S.S. Ettrick.

Morrison urged Mander to supply particulars to support the allegation of “conduct so repugnant to the traditions and spirit which animate, I hope, all grades of public

“That there is in this country the fullest liberty to make complaints is, I believe, well known to aliens, as to other classes of the community,” the Home Secretary said.

He rejected the suggestion of Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Laborite, that he reexamine separately the cases of the Arandora Star survivors, declaring that a general review of Class A internees would be undertaken in due course.

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