Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, replying to a question by Col. Josiah Wedgwood in Commons, said today that interned refugees were ineligible for the labor training scheme in munitions factories, announced yesterday, except individual internees physically unfit for the Pioneer Corps.
Replying to Geoffrey Mander’s charge of a “disgraceful state of affairs” in one internment camp, where a small number of anti-Nazis had suffered pressure and intimidation from the Nazis, Morrison said that the only mixed camp was one where 204 internees returned from Canada had been temporarily confined, and “I hope the anti-Nazis have enough vigor and energy not to conduct themselves as though afraid of the Nazis.”
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