Meeting to Support Nazis is Turned into Protest by British M.p.’s

A meeting called in an effort to establish a pro-Nazi parliamentary committee here was turned into a violent anti-Hitler demonstration last night when the members of parliament attending the meeting reversed the intentions of the chairman. Edward Doran, conservative representative from Tottenham, announced the organization of a group called “The Liberators” yesterday, and invited seventy fellow-members of the House of Commons to attend an evening meeting in the parliamentary buildings.

The meeting was to be addressed by Dr. Thost, correspondent of the Voelkischer Beobachter, who styled himself “Hitler’s right-hand man.” Dr. Thost attempted to defend the Hitler anti-Jewish policy, declaring that it was directed only against the Jews of Eastern Europe who had come into the Reich since the war. At this point in his address, the meeting was thrown into disorder by abuse, hooting, and shouted questions from the assembled parliamentarians.

The purpose of the meeting was then reversed, as a resolution condemning the Hitler policy, proposed by the ex-major-proctor of the House, was carried almost unanimously, with Chairman Doran trying in vain to rule the resolution out of order. Only four votes were cast against it.

“England is threatened by an immigration of fifty thousand German Jews!” Doran declared. His remark was greeted with derision by his colleagues. He then suggested that the beer industry was controlled by Jews, as well as the field of theatrical entertainment. He was shouted down and laughed into silence.

NAZI SYMPATHIZER PERSISTS

In spite of the failure of the meeting, Doran declared that he would persist in organizing a pro-Nazi committee in the House, asserting that he had more than a hundred followers there and in the House of Lords, but that strict secrecy had to be maintained in regard to the names of his adherents.