Nazi agents who had masqueraded as refugees are being charged with having been of assistance to Nazi parachutists dropping on Netherlands soil, it was reported today by a correspondent of the National Broadcasting Company in a short-wave broadcast from Paris.
The correspondent said the discovery had come as a shock to the Dutch authorities, who pointed out that they had befriended many who now turned out to be Nazi agents. He indicated that the development would result in more severe restrictions against refugees generally. The correspondent pointed out that many genuine refugees had been of material service to the governments which had given them haven, citing particularly numbers who had joined the Foreign Legion in France.
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