British Attorney-General Sir Hartley Shawcross told Parliament today that he would not start proceedings against the editor of the weekly New Statesman and Nation because of a letter which it published alleging a profascist, anti-Jewish bias on the part of some of the police in East London.
The letter in the New Statesman, carrying the fictitious name “John Hadlow,” alleged that the writer had seen a youth knocked down, kicked and beaten in the East End while 32 policemen close by did nothing to protect him. Later Home Secretary James Chuter Ede announced that investigation did not support in any respects the charges made by “Mr. Hadlow.” The editor of the New Statesman was said to have taken all steps open to him to satisfy himself of the good faith of its writer–a London reporter–before publishing the letter.
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