The editor of Reynolds News, a labor newspaper, and one of its columnists, Tom Driberg, a Member of Parliament, have received threattening notes from fascists following their recent expose of a revival of fascist and anti-Semitic activities in Britain.
The notes threatened that the newspaper “offices will be destroyed and a pointed Star of David will be deeply seared in your Mongol skull–Judah Shall Perish, Heil Hitler,” They were mailed from northern England and wore signed by the “Gothic Union.” In the same envelopes were included anti-Semitic leaflets captioned: “Wir Kommen Wieder.”
Police are making intensive investigations into the activities of fascist groups particularly in Leeds, which has a large Jewish population, and in London where a second hate groups, “The Northwest Task Force,” has joined the Union for British Freedom in spreading anti-Jewish propaganda including a call to Britons to. “throw Jews off public vehicles and knock them into the gutter.”
A petition campaign calling on the government to outlaw fascism was launched today at a meeting of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen of Manchester and Sal-ford districts.
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