The Attorney Goneral’s office has promised to investigate the distribution of anti-Semitic literature by a former member of Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, it was disclosed here by D. N. Pritt, Laborite, M. P.
Mr. Pritt informed the Attorney General that Victor Burgess, the former BUF member, was using his bookshop in Middlesex as a distribution center for anti-Jewish leaflots and pamphlets. Burgess is director of propaganda for the League of Ex-Servicemen whose meetings in Hyde Park last winter arouned strong protest because of the anti-Semitic remarks made by the speakers.
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