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Two Pascist Meetings Broken Up in London During Week-end; Se?pal Arrests Made

October 27, 1947
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Two fascist meetings were broken up during the week-end by angry anti-fascist crowds. A number of persons were arrested.

The Duke of Bedford, pro-fascist loader, addressed a meeting in West?nster of the “British People’s Party.” The rally was under the chairmanship of ## Becket, who was detatined during the war as a dangerous fascret. The meeting ## up when a stench bomb was thrown at the Luke by a man in the audience. A meeting of the British League of Ex-Servicemen, addressed by Jeffrey Hamn, its political under, was heckled constantly. Fighting broke out, resulting in several arrests.

Dr. Joseph McCambridge, convicted of breaking the window of a Jewish-owned ##p was fined $400 and costs and received a suspended two-year sentence. He was faced on parole for that period. A second charge of arson was dismissed.

Sctoland Yard authorities last night denied sensational stories in the British press declaring that the police were taking new precautions against an al?ged Jewish terrorist attack on prominent persons in Britain. The reports were ?posedly based on secret documents said to have been discovered by British inligence agents in Palestine. The police insisted that they had no knowledge of ##se documents, which were supposed to implicate the Irgun, and were taking only the ##al precautions against admitting undesirable persons into the country.

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