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Hungarian Refugees Disseminate Anti-jewish Propaganda in Britain

April 19, 1957
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Barnett Janner, Labor M. P., urged the British Government today to take action to halt the publication by recent Hungarian refugees to Britain of an anti-Semitic magazine and to prevent the further printing of such Nazi-type literature in Britain.

Mr. Janner, who is also president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said that there were many people in this country who, like himself, felt that the publication and distribution of such a journal was an abuse of the right of asylum.

Miss Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Joint Undersecretary of State for the Home Office, said that the government was aware of the anti-Semitic publication in the Hungarian language and had taken steps to prevent its distribution in hostels where Hungarian refugees were staying. Miss Hornsby Smith expressed sympathy with Mr. Janner’s views and said that if the publisher takes any actions which “offend against the law he will be made answerable for them.”

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