Home Secretary Sir John Simon told the House of Commons today that the police are closely watching cases of intimidation of Jewish shopkeepers in the East End of London by the British Fascists.
He said that special measures had been taken to keep order and to give the full protection of the law to the shopkeepers.
Sir John stated that there was not “the smallest justification” for the belief that the East End police were treating breaches of the law by Fascists with indulgence. His statement was made in reply to an interrogation by Ernest Thurtle, Labor M.I.
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