Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden today discounted reports of Nazi incitement in Poland by declaring in Commons he had no reason to suppose anti-Jewish demonstrations in Poland were “caused by foreign influence in Polish affairs.”
Capt. Eden’s statement was made in reply to Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Laborite, who asked whether the influence of the British Government was being used to check “increasing persecution of Jews in Poland” and counteract German influence.
When Geoffrey Mander, Liberal, asked if an opportunity would be given for these “persecuted Jews” to emigrate to Palestine, no reply was given.
The question of Jewish immigration also came up when William G.A. Ormsby-Gore, the Colonial Secretary, took the occasion of a question by Col. Wedgwood to deny reports in Jerusalem that Emir Abdullah of Trans Jordan was negotiating with the Colonial Office concerning admission of Jewish immigrants to the British-mandated territory.
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