Jews are behind the League of Nations, and the Jews living in England cannot possibly be patriotic. Jewry with the Jews always came first, Mr. A. E. Leese, Secretary-General of the Imperial Fascist League, contended in violent fashion at a “strange Fascist attack on the League of Nations” made at a meeting held at the Baptist Church Hall in Streatham, the “South London Press” reports. The debate was promoted by the Streatham League of Nations Union. There was a strong contingent of Fascists present, many in uniform.
The Jews had cornered the world’s money, Mr. Leese argued, and the interests of the Jews were permeating the actions of those connected with the League.
General Blakeney, who was in charge of the operations on the Suez Canal during the war in 1915 and was Director of Railway Traffic with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (of which the Palestine forces were part), speaking against the League, said, “The League is about the most wasteful organisation that has been formed. It is the waste-paper basker of the bureaucratic table”.
On a vote, however, the meeting decided by a large majority against the views of these speakers and in favour of the League of Nations.
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