In a two-column editorial headed “Enter the JewSaiter,” the Daily Mirror today warns against the motion introduced in Commons, yesterday by Capt. Archibald R. M. Ramsay, which urged the revival in Britain of medieral anti-Jewish laws.
“Released from incarceration, this gentleman returns to Westminster in the last hours of the dying Parliament and impudently puts forward a proposal likely to endanger all hope of peace and goodwill in the country,” the Mirror says. “AntiSemitism is always the first rung of the fascist ladder and must, therefore, be regarded with intense revulsion.
“The Mirror bases its policy on the common rights of man,” the editorial continues, “and Jews are entitled to the same political treatment as all other citizens and human beings. There can never be permanent peace and happiness for the people of say country, let alone all of mankind, if the laws are poisoned with racial hatred and if the Capt. Rasays of this world wield any influence.”
Meanwhile, in Commons today, Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson challenged the legality of Ramsay’s motion, but was told by the Speaker that “the motion was carefully examined and found in order, although it is entirely another matter whether one agrees with these views.” The Speaker indicated that the motion would not come up on the floor before Parliament is dissolved.
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